Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
84265
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/03/2005
Date of Amendment
16/03/2005
Name of Property
Rheidol House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Pontarfynach
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Pontarfynach
Easting
273582
Northing
276934
Street Side
N
Location
On the W side of Devil's Bridge on a bend in the A4120 some 120m W of its junction with the B4343.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 detached house. A building is marked on site on 1847 Tithe map but this looks of slightly later date. The diagonally set chimneys are more typical of houses built for gentry estates.
Exterior
House, painted stucco and slate eaves roof with wavy bargeboards and prominent brick stacks each with two diagonally-set shafts. Two-storeys, three bays with renewed 16-pane sashes. Door in gabled stuccoed porch with bargeboards, in between centre and right windows. Porch has 16-pane window to front and C20 half-glazed door to left side. Left end wall of painted rubble stone. Attached to right end is rubble stone lower outbuilding with slate roof, single storey further outbuilding beyond.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a mid C19 house of early Victorian architectural character.
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