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
14552
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/07/1994
Date of Amendment
24/06/2005
Name of Property
Bryn Dinas
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Tywyn
Town
Locality
Cwm Maethlon (Happy Valley)
Easting
263507
Northing
298582
Street Side
Location
Reached by a short farm road on the N side of the minor road through Cwm Maethlon, approximately 5.3km SE of Tywyn.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A late medieval cruck-framed hall house retaining an arched-brace truss suggesting a 2-bay hall and therefore a house of gentry status. It was converted to a storeyed house in the mid C17 when the fireplace, upper floor and stair were inserted. Alterations in the C19 include the present fenestration, its dairy and a short rear wing.
Exterior
A 1½-storey 3-window house of rubble stone, cement-rendered to the front and L gable end, graded-slate roof behind a coped gable to the R, with a central stone square stack, and a rendered square stack to the L. Openings are mainly late C19. A recessed panel door is to the L of centre beneath a simple slate hood, and is flanked by 4-pane horned sash windows and a small casement window further R. Three gabled dormers have 4-pane horned sash windows. The R gable end has a loft door. The L gable end has 4-pane sash windows, smaller to the attic, offset to the rear side.
In the 3-window rear is a 1-storey wing to the R with sash window and half-glazed door. Hall and inner room each have an inserted 2-light small-pane casement window. To the R of centre is a small stair window.
Interior
The house has a 3-unit plan. The entrance has a residual cross passage, with rear doorway, now opening to the rear wing, opposite the front doorway. The L-hand room retains a cross beam with run-out stop. The hall to the R has a joist-beam ceiling whose spine beam has fillet stops. The large fireplace has a timber lintel and to its R is a stone stair. Two former inner rooms are partitioned off by a C19 post-and-panel screen, of which the dairy on the L retains slate slabs. Two half cruck trusses remain visible. The central arched-brace truss is finely moulded and has a moulded boss, suggesting that it was the open truss of a 2-bay hall (any ornamentation above the arched brace is concealed by plaster). The second truss, in the inner rooms, is plainer and has a collar beam. The lower storey has a flagstone floor.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* for its special architectural interest as a late medieval house showing evidence of changes over many centuries, although retaining its C17 plan and, with the listed farm buildings, forming part of a strong farm group retaining its historical integrity.
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