NPRN31527
Map ReferenceSN45NW
Grid ReferenceSN4446257928
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCeredigion
Old CountyCardiganshire
CommunityLlanarth (Ceredigion)
Type Of SiteHOUSE
PeriodPost Medieval
DescriptionA mid eighteenth century house in the stable court of the Regency villa at Neuadd (NPRN 5838). The building was later converted as a threshing barn and has more recently become 'Barn Owl Cottage'. The villa's service wing is thought to be eighteenth century and this house was probably a subsidiary dwelling.
This is a two storey building with stone rubble walls under a slate roof. The roof is hipped to the north, where there is the base of a chimney stack, with a much more massive stack base in the south gable. Inside the hearth has a massive beam inscribed 'I B F 1754'. A fireplace above retained its moulded plaster architrave in 1978. The roof timbers and slates at this time were thought to be original. When converted as a barn the house was fitted with opposed square-headed caer entries and ventilation slits.
The single storey lofted stable adjoins on the north-west, so that it, the house and the coachhouse (NPRN 5303) form three sides of a court open to the south-west. The stable and coachhouse are thought to be mid nineteenth century.
There is a further detached building to the south-east, possibly a second stable, now 'Cobnut Cottage'. This was a single storey stone rubble building under a slate hipped roof, with a pent roofed annex on the south-east. It opened to the south-east where it had a central doorway flanked by windows.
Source: NMR Site File
John Wiles 14.09.07