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
9861
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/01/1964
Date of Amendment
31/01/2005
Name of Property
Darren Villa
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Trefeurig
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Pen-Bont Rhydybeddau
Easting
267856
Northing
283565
Street Side
Location
Situated at SE end of village, on N side of road, some 100m E of lane to Cwmsymlog.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Earlier to mid C19 village house, formerly the Cwmsymlog Arms inn, marked on 1886 OS map, closed 1937. There were three pubs in the hamlet, this one, the Miners Arms and the Three Horseshoes, reflecting the rise in population due to lead-mining.
Exterior
House, former inn, rubble stone with brick window and door heads, slate roof and stone end stacks with slate caps and dripstones. Two storeys, three bays with 12-pane horned sashes and centre door. Painted brick voussoirs, painted in alternate colours, slate sills. C20 recessed door with overlight. Rubble end walls with overhanging verges and shaped purlin ends. Left end has 2-pane fixed first floor window to left and single casement to ground floor right. Lower lofted outbuilding to right with corrugated asbestos roof. Rubble stone with brick straight heads to ground floor openings: wide 4-panelled door to right and small single-pane fixed light to left. Rubble stone external steps lead up to left hand first floor boarded door with head under eaves. Right end has small fixed central window to loft and small window with brick sides to right hand ground floor.
Interior
Front door leads into corridor with shoulder height wooden panelling with moulded cornice; panelled wall curves round to left before foot of stairs, the newels of which have champhered edges. Arch between corridor and stairs. 4-panelled door to sitting room on right. Others, and fireplaces now gone.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial village house, former inn, still in late Georgian tradition.
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