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
27006
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/10/2002
Date of Amendment
21/10/2002
Name of Property
Farm buildings at Fronfraith Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Faenor
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Fronfraith
Easting
261781
Northing
281926
Street Side
Location
Situated SW of Fronfraith Farmhouse, some 50m down former drive running S from lane to Capel Dewi.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Mid to later C19 estate farm buildings, including barn, lofted cartshed, stables, lofted coach-house, hay-barn and smaller buildings around a farm court. built for the Bonsall family of Fronfraith, a later C18 house built for Thomas Bonsall, entrepreneur in lead-mining. The house was situated further down the drive to the SW and was demolished in the later C20. the farm buildings are not marked on the 1838 tithe map.
Exterior
Farm-buildings, rubble stone with slate roofs. around farm court. N range of barn to E and lofted cart-shed to W has added late C19 open-bay hayshed on E end.
N range has high-door barn to right with stone-voussoirs to cambered arched doorway. Three loops each side, two above, one central below, part masked by pigsties coming forward to right, and by corrugated iron lean-to to left with cast-iron columns. Lean-to extends in front of lofted section to left of barn with 3 casement-pair windows under eaves, and W end steps to loft door. N side has 3 broad elliptical-arched cart-entries with stone voussoirs to arches and similar loft windows above. Barn rear to left has C20 lean-to to right of tall barn door with 3 loops to left. Hay barn on E end is of 3 bays with square piers, stone high plinths and brick stepped bases to brick piers. Slate roof slightly lower than main range roof. Tie-beam truss to E gable.
W range has slate roof with 3 ventilators and a chimney. E side to court has narrow windows under eaves and a door between 2 windows, with stone voussoirs, at right end. Various added lean-tos to left end. Rear W has yellow brick late C19 addition with parallel roof at left, then sequence of doors and windows with stone voussoirs, two doors alternated with 2 windows, then door between 2 windows. Further right, lofted section under same roof with 3 small square 9-pane tilting loft lights over a window and 2 elliptical-arched coach entries. Door between window an first coach-entry. Ledged double coach-house doors with strap hinges. Damaged brick S end lean-to and window in gable above.
Minor single-storey S and E ranges, altered: plain S range, and single-storey E range with former open bays now infilled.
Interior
Barn has C19 bolted collar trusses.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved mid to later C19 estate farm group, principal survivor of an important gentry estate of the region, and good example of an improvement period planned farmstead.
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