87831

 

II  

Designated  

22/11/2021  

 

Trefaes Uchaf  

 

Ceredigion  

Dyffryn Arth  

 

Bethania  

256245  

264021  

 

In a farmyard on the S side of the B4577 between Bethania and Cross Inn.  

 

 

A mid C19 farmhouse marked on the 1889 OS map. The house is not marked on the Llanbadarn Trefeglwys Tithe map of the late 1830s.  

Farmhouse of colour washed rubble-stone walls, with spar-dashed R-hand gable end, rear wing and outshut, slate roof and stone end stacks. Symmetrical 3-bay 2-storey front facing the road, away from the farmyard. Openings offset to the L. There is a central doorway flanked by hornless sash windows, 12-pane in the lower storey and 9-pane in the upper storey, all with projecting slate cills and beneath cambered heads. The R hand gable end faces the farmyard. It has a small-pane window lower R. A brick porch, partly also spar-dashed, spans the join between main range and the added, lower rear wing. It has a boarded door and a replacement window in its gable end, to the R of which are 2-pane sash windows in both storeys of the rear wing. L hand gable of plain stone with outshut, with replacement windows in original openings in the end wall, narrower above.  

Interior plan largely as built. In the ground floor there is a central hall with rooms either side of it and a dog-leg stair with plain balusters and newel. In the R-hand room is a slate flagstone floor and a fireplace with mid-C20 tile surround. There are steps down to the kitchen in the rear wing, which has a tile floor and brick range of the early C20. Late C20 fittings and finishes throughout, generally in poor condition.  

Listed as a rare well-preserved mid-C19 farmhouse retaining early character and detail, in the Georgian style with offset openings that persisted in SW Wales throughout the C19.