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
15603
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1995
Date of Amendment
01/02/1995
Name of Property
Cae Einion Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Arthog
Town
Locality
Kings
Easting
267916
Northing
316166
Street Side
Location
Located on a hillside 0.25km from Pont Kings; accessed via a long farm track leading NW off a metalled lane leading S from the A 493 at Pont Abergwynant ultimately to join the Ffordd Ddu.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Late C17 farmhouse of one-and -a-half storeys; rubble with renewed slate roof and slate-coped gable parapet to R. Large end chimney to L with capping and weather coursing. Central entrance to near-symmetrical front; pegged doorcase and recessed, ribbed and boarded door with small glazed panel. Flanking C19 12-pane recessed sash windows with slate cills. Above, 3 rubble gabled dormers with C19 4-pane sashes. 6 modern rooflights to rear pitch. C19 lean-to extensions to R and rear.
Stepped-up and adjoining the house to the L, a third quarter C19 stable and cart-house block. Rubble with old slate roof. Boarded and ribbed door to L and cart entrance to R; further boarded door and 4-pane window to rear. Boarded loft door to L gable end.
Interior
Interior: Flagged entrance hall with rough beamed ceiling and flanking post-and-panel partition screens forming a cross-passage to opposing entrances.. Part boarded C19 stair with plain newels and stick balusters. Huge inglenook fireplace to L room (former hall) with chamfered inglebeam, now blocked-in. Beamed ceilings to both hall and parlour spaces; early C19 boarded doors. Original boarded oak partition screen to upper floor L room and timber-framed partition to that to R. 3-bay upper-cruck roof with pegged collars and crude chamfered purlins.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C17 vernacular farmhouse with good fenestration and surviving internal detail.
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