Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18075
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/12/1996
Date of Amendment
20/12/1996
Name of Property
Llanwnnen Post Office
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanwnnen
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Llanwnnen
Easting
253295
Northing
247212
Street Side
Location
Situated on NW corner of cross-roads of A 485 and B 4337 in Llanwnnen village.
Description
Broad Class
Communications
Period
History
Mid C19 village shop.
Exterior
Whitewashed roughcast with hipped slate roof and roughcast N end stack ( S end stack removed). Roof has flat eaves and is chamfered at SE angle. Two storeys, main three-window E front, narrow chamfered-off SE angle, and two-bay S side. 12-pane hornless sashes. Stucco plinth, band between floors, and angle strip on N end. E front has ground floor centre flat-roofed porch with double half-glazed doors and overlight, between roughcast piers with stucco caps and plinths. Narrow windows in side walls. Early C20 photographs show a slate hipped porch on two timber chamfered posts. 12-pane sash to right, and big square 20-pane shop window to left. Windowless N end. Chamfered SE angle has "Llanwnen Post Office" in raised letters on ground floor and 12-pane sash above. S side has roughcast flat porch (formerly with hipped slate roof) with double doors to right, centre similar 20-pane shop window and post-box to ground floor left (in infilled window), with 12-pane sash to first floor above. Similar angle strip at left angle.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a good mid C19 house still in late Georgian style, in very prominent position on cross-roads. The survival of original shop windows is especially unusual.
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