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
16954
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/04/1996
Date of Amendment
07/06/2005
Name of Property
Tonfanau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llangelynin
Town
Locality
Tonfanau
Easting
256217
Northing
303701
Street Side
Location
Approximately 200m SW of Tonfanau railway station.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A C17 house, probably with integral rear wing. In the C18 another wing was added on the N side, probably always a separate dwelling, and therefore an example of the unit system. The house is shown in its present form on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A large 1½-storey house comprising a main range with rear wing (the original house), and a cross wing housing a secondary dwelling and cart house, of rubble stone and slate roof (partly missing at the time of inspection). The main range faces E, with a stone stack to the R and replacement brick stack to the L. The entrance is offset to the R (the door is missing). There are 4 unequally placed windows, of which the third window in the centre is narrower, retaining some glazing bars of former sashes. There are 3 dormers, formerly under raked hoods. To the rear, offset to the R, is a short wing with a corbelled first-floor stack. To its R is an inserted attic window and in the R side wall is an original window opening.
A cross wing facing N is the secondary dwelling. It has a central entrance flanked by windows, and with 3 dormers. Set back to the R is a 1-window lower extension, with separate doorway and end stack. Continuous with the L end is a 2-bay cart house and granary with openings under lintels. In its gable end are stone steps to the granary entrance. The rear of the secondary dwelling, facing the front of the main range, has 2 dormers with sash windows, and a sash window lower R.
Interior
The original roof structures are largely intact but most partitioning is of the C19. The main range has, to the N end, a large ground floor fireplace (blocked) with deep timber chamfered lintel, and a small fireplace to the S end. Beams are mainly plastered over, but some chamfered joists remain, particularly to the rear wing where the 1st floor fireplace has a chamfered timber lintel. The secondary dwelling has a stair roughly opposite the doorway, with stone spine wall to the L, and chamfered beams and joists. A bakehouse retains bread ovens.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding its condition, for its special architectural interest as a large regional vernacular farmhouse showing development from the C17 to a unit house of the C18, of definite character and without modern alteration.
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