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
22278
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/09/1999
Date of Amendment
16/03/2005
Name of Property
Hawthorn Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Pontarfynach
Town
Ystrad Meurig
Locality
Hafod
Easting
276228
Northing
273434
Street Side
Location
Isolated location approximately 300m NE of site of demolished Hafod house.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later C19 estate house incorporating later C18 building, originally the cottage of Thomas Johnes' menagerie, depicted on a late C18 Derby plate. The plate shows the outshut rear of a small house with window each side of a door, and chimney on W end, overlooking a pond with ducks. A pole dove-house stands to the W. The W end of the present house shows the chimney gable of the original house. The rebuilding was part of the estate improvements of the 1880s by John Waddingham, who purchased the Hafod estate in 1870.
Exterior
Two-storey double-fronted cottage, with single-storey wing to E. Rubble stone with blue brick detail and slate roof on deep eaves. Blue brick gable chimney stacks. Two-light casement windows with brick slightly cambered heads: upper two windows breaking eaves under deep dormer gables. Boarded central door with similar head. End walls have overhanging verges, W end shows gable line and chimney of earlier house.
Single-storey whitewashed E wing to right, set back. The main part has board door between two small-paned casement-pair windows, facade offset to left. Set back section to right with higher eaves, plank door to extreme left and small window to right. C20 skylights in rear roof.
Interior
Main house has two-room ground floor plan. Kitchen to left with small iron range to fireplace, which has half-glazed cupboard to left, and right-hand door to cupboard under corner stair. Slate slab floor. Small parlour to right with pantry behind. Single storey wing has simple raftered roof and cobbled floor to right end room.
Reason for designation
Listed for historic importance as an original part of the Hafod estate, and for remodelling in the later C19 as an attractively designed estate cottage.
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