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
9847
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/01/1964
Date of Amendment
24/02/2004
Name of Property
Glyn Wern
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanfarian
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Chancery
Easting
258037
Northing
276643
Street Side
E
Location
Situated at N end of cottage row on the E side of the A487 at Chancery.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 picturesque Gothic cottage in one of 2 rows facing each other across the main road, the rows originally of 2 gable ended cottages flanking one double-fronted cottage on W and flanking 2 cottages on W. Possibly built for the Ffosrhydgaled estate, not marked on 1845 Tithe map.
Exterior
House formerly 2, in terrace of 4, the end ones gable-ended, the centre ones double fronted, with pointed windows, facing a matching terrace opposite. Whitewashed rubble with slate gabled roofs and massive stone stack. Formerly 2 dwellings, projecting gable-fronted cottage to left with wavy bargeboard, large 6-pane window with painted stone sill and stucco reveals to left with evidence of infill beneath, so probably formerly door with stone voussoirs to cambered head and to right is severely-pointed Gothic window with painted stone sill. Small panes of the mid to late C20, replacing window with interlacing glazing bars to head as elsewhere on the building. Massive stone stack with projecting coping to ridge, heightened in red brick, between this and recessed cottage to right. Left end gable has similar bargeboard and no windows.
Cottage to right has renewed small-paned lights with interlacing glazing bars to Gothic severely-pointed windows with stone voussoirs and stone sills. Centre boarded door with narrow rectangular overlight with small side margins. Cobbled forecourt.
Interior
Not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a former pair of cottages in a tightly designed group of Gothic estate cottages.
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