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Pemprys Rural Settlement is a post-medieval rectangular hut situated in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument. The structure represents the type of modest dwelling built during the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries across the Welsh countryside, when dispersed farmsteads became increasingly common in upland regions. Its rectangular plan and construction methods are typical of rural buildings from this period, reflecting the practical building traditions of Welsh agricultural communities.
The monument stands on bedrock composed of Ashgill Rocks, an undifferentiated sequence of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone formed during the Ashgill stage of the Ordovician period. This geology produces the weathered, fractured stone naturally available to builders in the locality, material that would have been used directly in the hut's construction. The site's landscape setting, determined by this underlying geology, would have shaped both the location chosen for settlement and the practical constraints of building and farming in the area.
The hut survives as a physical record of rural occupation and domestic life in post-medieval Wales. Scheduled under Cadw reference CD198, the structure forms part of the archaeological evidence for how ordinary farming families adapted to and exploited the Welsh landscape during this later historical period.
Pemprys Rural Settlement is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CD198. View the official record →
Pemprys Rural Settlement is a post-medieval rectangular hut situated in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled monument. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CD198.
Pemprys Rural Settlement dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a rectangular hut. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Pemprys Rural Settlement is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is CD198.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Nant Bwlch-glas lluest farmstead (7.2 km), Bwlch yr Adwy Round Barrow (7.2 km), Pencraig y Pistill Round Cairn (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Pemprys Rural Settlement's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Pemprys Rural Settlement stands on Ashgill Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.