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
19997
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Penrhyn Mawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Aberdaron
Easting
219050
Northing
326132
Street Side
Location
Situated S of Aberdaron-Rhiw road on ridge above Penrhyn headland, at end of lane beginning some 2 km E of Aberdaron.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse, probably earlier C19, to an unusual plan with gable front, outshut sides and central stack, presumably a remote derivative of a Renaissance house plan via later C18 villas (cf Asgill house by Sir Robert Taylor) and then pattern books. Not widely found, the former rectory at St Brides, Pembs, is another. Marked on 1844 Tithe Map as owned by the Nanhoron estate, occupied by William Roberts, with 131 acres (53ha).
Exterior
Farmhouse, pebbledashed, whitewashed to front with close-eaved low-pitched slate roofs and big whitewashed stack in centre of ridge. Coped gables. Two storeys and attic, with gable facade comprised of a shallow gabled tall centre and outshuts each side, 3-window range. Small centre attic 4-pane sash, large 4-pane sash to first floor centre, narrower window each side in outshut end walls, 2-pane left, 4-pane right. Ground floor has similar narrow 4-pane sash left, 6-pane larger sash centre and door with overlight right. Lean-to on left end wall, added lean-to on right end wall. Rear is similar to front, 4-pane sashes but C20 windows first floor right and ground floor centre and right, no opening ground floor left. Tall chimney on left outshut corner.
Interior
Unusual plan with larger rooms back-to-back each side of centre stack, entry and stair to left.
Reason for designation
Included as a gentry farmhouse designed to an unusual gable-fronted plan-form.
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