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
9848
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/01/1964
Date of Amendment
24/02/2004
Name of Property
Ty Gwyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanfarian
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Chancery
Easting
258034
Northing
276630
Street Side
E
Location
Situated at S end of cottage row, on the E side of the A487 at Chancery.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 former pair of Gothic cottages in one of 2 rows facing each other across the main road, the rows originally of 2 gable ended cottages flanking two double-fronted cottages on W and flanking one cottage on E. 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 roofs and Gothic detail. Cottage to left, attached to Glyn Wern, is double-fronted with small-paned lights with severely-pointed Gothic heads, interlacing glazing bars, slate sills and plain reveals each side of boarded door with narrow overlight with narrow side margins. Stone voussoirs are visible beneath whitewash. Large square ridge stack between cottages in coursed rubble with projected coping to head. Heightened in red brick in the form of a circular stack with raised coping and tapered pot. Projected gable-fronted cottage to right has wavy bargeboard, similar Gothic window to left with interlacing glazing bars to small-paned light, painted stone sill and whitewashed reveals. To right is horned timber sash with side margins and stone sill with rendered reveals and cambered head, formerly a door. Cast iron rainwater goods. Right end wall is gabled with wavy bargeboard. Tripartite sash window set towards rear with stone sill. Cobbled paving to roadside.
Interior
Not inspected at survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a former pair of cottages in an unusual and distinctive group of Gothic estate cottages.
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