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
17807
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/11/1996
Date of Amendment
26/11/1996
Name of Property
Walls of walled garden and
lean-to at Gelli
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Nantcwnlle
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Trefilan
Easting
254583
Northing
257304
Street Side
Location
Situated enclosing garden to N and W of Gelli.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Cob or clom garden walls. Uncertain date, possibly early C18 contemporary with original house. One other known example is at Llanllyr, Llanfihangel Ystrad.
Exterior
Earth garden walls around three sides of Gelli walled garden. Rubble stone high base, then cob formerly whitewashed and corrugated-iron capping, over thatch. On N side walls are severely eroded. One N door. On E side is rubble stone and slate lean-to, six open bays with whitewashed stone piers and length of whitewashed wall to right. S side has one short stretch to join NE angle of house, with one entry framed in stone, and another short section W of the house with broad opening, possibly altered, and two pointed arches. This stretch is in rubble stone. W side has one door with timber lintel.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as the best regional example of enclosure walls in clom or cob to a walled garden.
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