Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82976
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/07/2004
Date of Amendment
20/07/2004
Name of Property
Gwar Caeau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Ystrad Fflur
Town
Ystrad Meurig
Locality
Ffair Rhos
Easting
275968
Northing
268721
Street Side
Location
Situated some 2km ENE of Ffair Rhos, up lane running NE from Teifi Pools road past Glanpond Cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small mid C19 cottage, not marked on the 1843 Tithe map. An example of the smallest holdings on the edge of the cultivable land, possibly an encroachment.
Exterior
Cottage, cement-washed rubble stone with slate roof and stone end stacks with dripstones and capstones. Single-storey, double-fronted with two ground floor windows and centre door. Stone voussoirs, slate sills. Right hand window has damaged fixed 12-pane glazing, left one is missing glazing. This window has a straight joint down just beyond left jamb, to the ground, possibly a former doorway. Damaged front door. Left end small loft window. Rear small stone lean-to with end window and corrugated iron roofing.
Attached rubble stone cow-byre to right of cottage, with low doorway on extreme left. Corrugated iron roofing in poor condition. Rear small rubble lean-to.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a surviving example of the smallest cottage smallholdings of the county, here a cottage with cow-byre, typically set on marginal land.
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