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
16022
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
26/05/1995  
Date of Amendment
26/05/1995  
Name of Property
Bryn Blew  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Brithdir and Llanfachreth  
Town
 
Locality
Llanfachreth  
Easting
276262  
Northing
322117  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on an elevated site some 750m SE of Llanfachreth village and about 200m NE of the Careg Fawr crossroads; accessed via a farm track.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Dated 1747. A vernacular cottage, altered c.1830 as part of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan's Nannau estate improvements.  

Exterior
One-and-a-half storeys; of whitened rubble (the whitewash now largely removed) under a renewed slate roof. C19 end chimneys with plain cornices and weather-coursing. Central entrance with recessed C19 boarded door; inscised date to projecting stone lintel. Small flanking 4-pane windows and 2 C19 catslide dormers to roof. These with 4-pane sash windows and slate-hung sides; modern skylight to centre. C19 returned label to R gable end above a modern window. Adjoining to the L a single-storey C19 byre addition built into the slope of the hill; of rubble and slate. Entrance to R with 2-light window to the L, the R side of which is shuttered, the L part-glazed. The cottage has rough-coped rubble forecourt walls within which some stone flagging survives.  

Interior
Post-and-panel partition screen to R of entrance. To L the original wooden doorcase into former hall space with chamfered detail and long run-off stops. Large fireplace and bressummer to hall.  

Reason for designation
Included as a dated vernacular cottage with early C19 estate alterations.  

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