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
81764
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/08/2003  
Date of Amendment
15/08/2003  
Name of Property
Pentre Mynydd  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Llangwyryfon  
Town
Aberystwyth  
Locality
Trefenter  
Easting
260776  
Northing
268765  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated some 150m NE of Capel Bethel in Trefenter.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Small farmhouse with byre in-line, probably earlier to mid C19, marked on the 1842 tithe map, when the owner was Lewis Davis and the occupier was David Jenkins. The farmhouse was the home of the bard E. Prosser Rhys (died 1945), crowned at the 1924 National Eisteddfod in Pontypridd for his poem Atgof. Disused and in poor condition 2002.  

Exterior
Small farmhouse, rubble stone formerly whitewashed, with slate close-eaved roof and 2 brick stacks. Two storeys, double-fronted, much offset to right with off-centre boarded door. Hornless small-paned sash windows, 9-pane above, 12-pane below, stone voussoirs to lower openings, slab lintels to upper 2 windows, thin slate sills. Outshut rear. Lower byre added to left with corrugated iron roof and 2 full-height doors.  

Interior
C19 joists to ceilings, fireplaces gone.  

Reason for designation
Included as a small vernacular farmstead, little altered, the home of one of the four chaired bards of the Mynydd Bach.  

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