Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17725
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/02/1996
Date of Amendment
16/02/1996
Name of Property
Blaenwern
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanarth
Town
Locality
Blaenwern
Easting
242343
Northing
256375
Street Side
Location
Situated about 1 km down lane running E off A 487 from junction just S of Penrhiwlas.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 smaller gentry house, not marked on 1840 Tithe Map. Said to have been built for Miss Elizabeth Lloyd. Noted in later C20 as breeding stud for Welsh cobs and Welsh Black cattle, founded by Pauline Taylor with Barbara Saunders-Davies and later Enid Lewis. The stud was given to University College, Aberystwyth, which closed it and dispersed the stock.
Exterior
Rubble stone, formerly stuccoed, with slate roofs, flat eaves and rendered whitewashed stacks. Two-storey, three-window N front with hipped NE angle and W end stack. Large hornless 12-pane sashes with slate sills and brick heads. Centre 4-panel door with leaded-light overlight and brick head. E side, overlooking lane, has ridge and S end stacks, three-window range of similar sashes with brick heads, the left two-window range closer spaced, and one window originally a door. Altered whitewashed single storey S end addition.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as good example in the district of small country house still in late Georgian style.
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