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
1294
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/07/1975
Date of Amendment
01/02/1995
Name of Property
Y Bwythyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Corwen
Town
Locality
Glyndyfrdwy
Easting
317712
Northing
342238
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the A5, 2km E of Glyndyfrdwy.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built as a toll-house for the Holyhead Road Turnpike, which was initiated in 1815 and largely completed by 1830.
Exterior
Rough random rubble with freestone dressings, the roof re-covered with diagonally laid tiles; axial stack. Single storeyed, 3-bay plan, with canted central bay housing entrance flanked by windows (renewed in original openings, with flat arched heads). Outer bays also have renewed windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
An example of the standard toll-house design for the Holyhead Road Turnpike, which has retained much of its character in spite of some alterations, and which forms a group with the former weigh-house on the opposite side of the road.
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