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
15349
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1949
Date of Amendment
12/12/1994
Name of Property
Ty Mawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Criccieth
Town
Locality
Easting
250061
Northing
337867
Street Side
SE
Location
In a continuously built-up terrace, opposite and above the junction with Tanygrisiau Terrace.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A late C16 house, with later alterations including insertion of windows at some time in the C18 and remodelling of internal layout to create a central stair hall. At one time in use as a public house.
Exterior
Roughly coursed boulder stones and slate rubble, with recent slate roof. End wall stacks, that to left corbelled out at first floor level. 2 storeys, 3 window range, with entrance towards centre. Steep voussoir arched head to doorway, which is flanked by 16-pane sash windows with flat lintels. The 3 upper windows are similar, and align with the lower openings. Cellar opening (formerly a doorway) cut by left hand window, has steep voussoir arched head, similar to that of main doorway.
Interior
The house originally had an inside cross-passage plan, and the opposed entrances of this survive, together with the heavy post and panel partition wall, now separating the living room from the stairway. The original layout had a large and a small room on each floor, placed alternatively. The present internal layout is in part the result of later changes, and especially the insertion of a central staircase (perhaps in the late C18). The fireplace in the present living room is probably a C18 insertion, the earlier fireplace in the W room has been blocked, and the original staircase alongside it largely removed. A 3-bay roof with arch-braced collar beam and cusped wind braces to one truss is recorded by RCAHM.
Reason for designation
An important example of an early storeyed vernacular building in the centre of the town which has retained many of its original features.
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