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
16153
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/07/1995
Date of Amendment
20/07/1995
Name of Property
Y Refael
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanelltyd
Town
Locality
Bontddu
Easting
267174
Northing
318875
Street Side
N
Location
Located on a slight rise in the village centre, immediately to the E of the Halfway House Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Late C17 vernacular house, originally of one storey, raised in the third-quarter C19 and extended eastwards to create a smithy.
Exterior
Rubble construction partly built on a rough boulder plinth; under a continuous slate roof, the smithy section (to the R) with old slates. Large projecting end stack to the L serving the former hall. Central entrance to house section with C20 boarded door. Flanking 12-pane casements with smaller 8-pane casements under the eaves. Further squat end chimney to R of house section. The smithy section has large double garage doors and a C20 window. The rear is built partly into the rock. 2 modern flat-roofed dormers; modern window to the former smithy. Upper loading bay to R gable end.
Interior
This was not inspected during the survey (April 1995), though the hall is said to retain its beamed ceiling.
Reason for designation
A late C17 vernacular house with further special interest as a C19 and early C20 village smithy.
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