Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
17803
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/11/1996
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Talsarn Smithy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Nantcwnlle
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Talsarn
Easting
254543
Northing
256291
Street Side
Location
Situated in Talsarn village, on E side of B 4337 nearly opposite Red Lion Inn.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Smithy on site said to be recorded from C16. Associated with Llanllyr mansion, Llanfihangel Ystrad. Probably rebuilt in early C19
Exterior
Squared rubble stone with asbestos sheet hipped roof. Single-storey, rectangular, with two small windows left and centre, each with stone voussoirs and casement pair windows, one glazed, one shuttered. To right, full height broad opening with C20 metal doors. Small stone stack on rear wall. C20 asbestos clad lean-to on N end. S end rubble stone with stone angle and centre piers, apparently an infilled two-bay opening.
Interior
Two rooms, S end divided off by rubble wall. Main N part is smithy with double hearth against rear walls, originally with two sets of bellows, those to left removed, but curved indent in wall to N marks position. Unusual cylindrical bellows to right. Additional hearth on S wall with bellows in SE corner. Smoke blackened collar-truss roof, bolted collars.
Reason for designation
Listed for its completeness as an early C19 rural smithy with internal fittings; still in use (1996).
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