Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
13/01/1993
Date of Amendment
13/01/1993
Name of Property
Old Farmhouse at Pwllfein Farm
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Location
Situated some 300m SW of Pont Porthrhyd after road rises steeply. Set at SE end of farmyard, at right angles to present (1916) farmhouse.
History
Late C18 or early C19.
Exterior
Farmhouse in rubble stone, whitewashed to front with slate roof and stone end stacks. Outshut rear. 2-storey, double-fronted elevation with 12-pane sashes each side and centre door, all offset slightly to allow for deeper chimney wall to left. Heavy quoins at front corners. Upper windows are smaller and set under eaves, lower windows have cut-stone voussoirs to cambered heads. Door has single stone lintel. Split slate sills. Single-storey rear outshut under corrugated iron roof with cambered headed doorway to E and door and window to rear.
Interior
Central lobby with boarded partitions and dog-leg stair with 6-panel door. Landing wall is boarded rather than masonry. One large first floor room, no fireplace and collar-truss double-purlin roof. Pegged joints and roughly squared timbers.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the earlier surviving farmhouses in the area, unaltered.
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