Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81764
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/08/2003
Date of Amendment
15/08/2003
Name of Property
Pentre Mynydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llangwyryfon
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Trefenter
Easting
260776
Northing
268765
Street Side
Location
Situated some 150m NE of Capel Bethel in Trefenter.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small farmhouse with byre in-line, probably earlier to mid C19, marked on the 1842 tithe map, when the owner was Lewis Davis and the occupier was David Jenkins. The farmhouse was the home of the bard E. Prosser Rhys (died 1945), crowned at the 1924 National Eisteddfod in Pontypridd for his poem Atgof. Disused and in poor condition 2002.
Exterior
Small farmhouse, rubble stone formerly whitewashed, with slate close-eaved roof and 2 brick stacks. Two storeys, double-fronted, much offset to right with off-centre boarded door. Hornless small-paned sash windows, 9-pane above, 12-pane below, stone voussoirs to lower openings, slab lintels to upper 2 windows, thin slate sills. Outshut rear. Lower byre added to left with corrugated iron roof and 2 full-height doors.
Interior
C19 joists to ceilings, fireplaces gone.
Reason for designation
Included as a small vernacular farmstead, little altered, the home of one of the four chaired bards of the Mynydd Bach.
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