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
18254
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/02/1997
Date of Amendment
17/02/1997
Name of Property
Nos 1 and 2 Tan-y-Castell
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Dolwyddelan
Town
Locality
Dolwyddelan Castle
Easting
272461
Northing
352329
Street Side
S
Location
Located immediately to the S of the road and slightly below its level, some 300m E of Dolwyddelan Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Vernacular farmhouse, dated (internally) 1735, though perhaps of late C17 origin; altered, raised and extended later C19. A mid-Victorian photograph shows the house as single-storey and very much in disrepair. Significant as the birthplace of John Jones (1796-1857), famous Calvinistic Methodist minister. He is regarded as one of the most powerful preachers ever known in Wales, having introduced a new style which laid emphasis on the practical, rather than the doctrinal side of religion. Also birthplace of his brothers David Jones (1805-1868), William Jones (1801-1885) and Richard Jones (1799-1850), all also Calvinistic Methodist preachers, of whom David's publications and hymns became well-known at the end of the C19 .
Exterior
L-shaped 2-storey farmhouse, now two separate dwellings. Of rubble, partly on a boulder plinth; slate roofs and plain stacks with weathercoursing and cornice. Of these, that to the E gable projects and is gabled. The S (garden) side has a raised 3-window central section with lower flanking sections. Off-centre modern gabled porch to former with plain bargeboard. C20 2-pane casement windows, those to the upper floor contained within gabled half-dormers; the central upper window is leaded. Similar windows to 2-bay L and single-bay R sections, to both floors. Similar windows to N side with modern gabled porch to L. To the R, a small projecting storeyed wing faces N; modern part-glazed door to this at L with windows as before and plain end chimney. Attached to the E gable, a large late C19 slate tablet with Welsh dedication inscription and the names of the 'three ministers and one deacon,' who were brothers, together with the names and dates of their sisters.
Interior
Largely plain, late C19 interiors. In No.2, the former 'preaching room', with fireplace bressummer inscribed with date 1735; large-field pine dado panelling to the walls, apparently C19.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a C17 vernacular farmhouse and for its special historic interest as the birthplace and home of John, David, Richard and William Jones, the early C19 non-conformist ministers.
Group value with the Tan-y-Castell monument.
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