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
170
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1968
Date of Amendment
02/07/1998
Name of Property
Peniarth Fawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Betws Yn Rhos
Town
Abergele
Locality
Betws-yn-Rhos
Easting
291045
Northing
374261
Street Side
Location
Located 0.5km NE of Betws-yn-Rhos village to the NW of an unclassified lane running NE from Betws towards Abergele; accessed via a farm track and set back slightly behind low rubble forecourt walls.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Second-quarter or mid C16 storeyed gentry house of lateral chimney and cross-passage type. Some remodelling appears to have been undertaken in the late C17 (which included the insertion of a fine stair), and again c1735 according to a dated fireplace.
Exterior
Storeyed lateral and end chimney gentry house, probably of the second-quarter or mid C16; of whitened rubble construction on pronounced boulder and rock foundations with rough-dressed quoins; old slate roof with rough-dressed, kneelered gable parapets. Large projecting, gabled chimneys to R gable and to rear (lateral), the former with off-set, slightly tapering stack; both have modern capping. The L gable has a C20 brick end chimney. Off-set entrance to R with single-storey modern gabled porch and boarded door. To the R of the entrance is a first-half C19 12-pane unhorned sash window, with a similar sash at the far L, beyond a large tripartite C20 window with plain glazing; 4 further, similar sash windows to the first floor, their heads at eaves level. The rear (garden) facade has a fine pointed-arched cyclopean entrance L of centre (corresponding to an internal cross-passage plan) with boarded door. To the L of this are 2 later C19 4-pane sash windows, the nearest smaller. To the R of the entrance and on the first floor at L are oak cross windows of late C17 date; modern glazing. Above the entrance is a further, blocked window. Beyond the large projecting breast of the lateral chimney, at R, is a C19 boarded entrance with 4-pane sash beyond; above this is a further C19 12-pane sash window. Small modern lean-to addition of whitened brick extruded in the angle between the R gable and the end chimney at the rear.
Interior
Three-unit cross-passage plan with (formerly) unheated end parlour to L. The hall has a stopped-chamfered beamed ceiling and a similar bressummer to its lateral fireplace. Leading off from the hall is a fine late C17 oak dog-leg stair with turned balusters and ball finials to square newels; original treads and risers. The stair continues in a further, similar flight from the first floor to the attic. Three first-half C18 2-panel doors to first floor. There is apparently a fireplace dated 1735 (not seen during inspection).
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an exceptionally well-preserved example of a first-half C16 lateral chimney gentry house with good surviving C17 staircase.
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