Rheidol House, Pontarfynach, Ceredigion

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.3758 / 52°22'32"N

Longitude: -3.8585 / 3°51'30"W

OS Eastings: 273582

OS Northings: 276934

OS Grid: SN735769

Mapcode National: GBR 92.RDLX

Mapcode Global: VH4FP.2KJ1

Plus Code: 9C4R94GR+8H

Entry Name: Rheidol House

Listing Date: 16 March 2005

Last Amended: 16 March 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 84265

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300084265

Location: On the W side of Devil's Bridge on a bend in the A4120 some 120m W of its junction with the B4343.

County: Ceredigion

Town: Aberystwyth

Community: Pontarfynach

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

Tagged with: House

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a mid C19 house of early Victorian architectural character.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Capel Mynach and chapel house attached to left
Situated near the centre of Pontarfynach, some 150m S of the junction of the A4120 and the B4343 and on the W side of the latter.
II Devil's Bridge Station
Set in a wide railway yard at the head of the Vale of Rheidol Railway; close to road entrance from SE corner.
II* Hafod Arms Hotel
Facing N on the bend in the road immediately W of the famous Devil’s Bridge and Mynach Falls and at the junction with the B4574.
II Automobile Association call box by Hafod Arms Hotel
Facing N just E of the Hafod Arms Hotel near the junction of the A4120 and the B4574.
II* Devil's Bridge / Pont ar Fynach
Carrying the A4120 across the gorge of the Afon Mynach on the E side of Devil's Bridge.
II Iron footbridge over Afon Mynach
Crossing the Afon Mynach on the bottom of the gorge some 200m N of the A4120 road bridge.
II Troedrhiwfawr
Situated on N side of the Cwmrheidol lane some 1.3 km E of Bethel chapel, at beginning of track to Y Ddol.
II Pantyddwyriw
Situated on N side of Cwmrheidol lane about 1.2 km E of Bethel chapel, and 300m E of Cwm Rheidol mine site.

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Rheidol House

A Grade II Listed Building in Pontarfynach, Ceredigion