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
82053
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/11/2003
Date of Amendment
15/04/2004
Name of Property
Cwmllechwedd Uchaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Lledrod
Town
Locality
Lledrod
Easting
266466
Northing
270427
Street Side
W
Location
Situated some 200m along a track to the W of a minor road 2km E of Lledrod.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse, possibly former gentry house, probably mid to later C18, though massive stepped chimney looks later C17. The Rev David Hughes of Cwmllechwedd, vicar of Lledrod, died 1815, is buried in Lledrod churchyard. Marked on 1843 Tithe map as Cwmllechwedd Uchaf owned by David Hughes, occupied by William Williams.
Exterior
Detached substantial farmhouse, rubble stone with traces of whitewash, slate roof with close eaves, brick stack to left and massive external stepped stone stack to right. Two-storey, 3-window irregular range, upper floor with smaller windows grouped centrally, ground floor with 2 larger windows, one beneath upper left, the other closer in to right of central doorway, with a third much smaller, to far right. Upper openings with brick voussoirs and those of ground floor with stone voussoirs. Slate sills. Windows all renewed in C20 uPVC; plain board door to centre. Left gable end rendered, with large 6-pane attic casement. Right end taken up largely with external stack which is stepped both on the front face and on sides, but a doorway is to the right in the end wall of the added lean-to to rear, with small 4-pane casement above. Lean-to has straight joint to main range and occupies left end of rear wall of farmhouse. To centre rear, C20 uPVC window each floor, smaller to ground floor.
Interior
Kitchen has large inglenook with oak beam and bread oven. Ceiling has exposed oak beam with roughly squared joists.
Reason for designation
Included despite C20 windows as a substantial farmhouse possibly of C17 origins, an early survival for this area, with remarkable external chimney and some surviving interior detail.
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