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
18367
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/04/1997
Date of Amendment
25/04/1997
Name of Property
Bwlchbychan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanwenog
Town
Locality
Brynteg
Easting
248082
Northing
243392
Street Side
Location
Situated some 700m SW of Brynteg chapel, in its own grounds facing SE over the Teifi valley.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Country house built 1849-51 for John Pugh Pryse, younger son of Pryse Loveden Pryse of Gogerddan. J.P.Pryse had built a country house at Peithyll, near Gogerddan in 1844, but this was apparently given up to his brother E.L.Pryse c1850. The house at Bwlchbychan bears some similarities, particularly the curved bays, to Alltlwyd, Llansantffraed, Cards.,a house of 1832-3 by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury.
Exterior
Sandstone rubble, probably originally roughcast or stuccoed, with tooled sandstone dressings and slate hipped roofs. Corniced stone ridge stacks. Two-storey, six-window S front, with 3-window E and W sides and slightly lower 6-window service range behind. Deep bracketed eaves. Plinth, tooled flush quoins and voussoirs. S front has six 12-pane first floor hornless sashes and two semi-circular three-window ground floor stone bays with French windows and top-lights. Rough stepped cornices to flat roofs, probably intended for moulded stucco. E side has similar three first floor windows, above ground floor French windows to left and right. Slightly off-centre big rounded porch, similar to front bays. Flat-roofed but possibly originally with larger cornice and roof or parapet (see mark on wall above). Curved double half-glazed doors with big two-light curved top-light. Single light with top-light each side.
Service wing is large, double-pile with hipped valley roofs. Corniced stack on each ridge. Five-window range ,of regular 9-pane sashes above and 12-pane below.
End wall has 6-panel door with overlight and 9-pane sash above.
Interior
Spine corridor with stone and slate paving, Ribbed plaster ceiling. Off to right of centre is staircase, apsidal-ended with stick balusters and moulded rail. Hall is top-lit from octagonal lantern, altered in C20. Two main front rooms open off corridor, plaster cornices, marble fireplaces. SE room has thick vine motif to ceiling border and acanthus over egg-and-dart to cornice. Sideboard recess to right. 6-panel doors. Upper main bedrooms are at corners of house lit from two sides, with dressing rooms in centre. Service wing has slate paved spine corridor.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good late Georgian style country house, of a scale unusual in the region.
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