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
207
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1968
Date of Amendment
15/05/1998
Name of Property
Tan-y-Gaer
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llannefydd
Town
Locality
Tan-y-Gaer
Easting
297379
Northing
372550
Street Side
Location
Located on the northern slope of the Moel-y-Gaer at the NW edge of the community, approximately 2km NW of Llannefydd village; accessed via a long farm track running N from the road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Elizabethan storeyed end chimney house, probably of the third-quarter C16, with first-half C19 alterations.
Exterior
Storeyed end-chimney house of whitened rubble construction under a slated roof with tiled ridge. The tall downhill gable chimney (N) projects and is gabled; that to the S is a late C19 or early C20 replacement in red brick. The front (E) face is set back behind a rubble-walled garden. Off-centre entrance (to the R) with a primary Tudor-arched stone entrance and deeply-recessed C20 boarded door. To the R is a 16-pane unhorned sash window, a modern replacement of a second-quarter C19 predecessor; to the L of the entrance is a blocked primary window with exposed timber lintel. Beyond this is a further 16-pane modern sash; four 12-pane sliding sashes, as before, to the first floor.
The rear (farmyard-facing) side has a blocked primary entrance with Tudor arch as before (corresponding to a former cross-passage plan). To the R of this is a 16-pane window as before with exposed timber lintel; beyond is a modern brick porch with boarded door. To the R of this is a modern 16-pane sliding sash copy, with segmentally-arched head to the opening (C19). A later masonry projection to the far L relates to a former brewhouse oven. This is located in a C19 single-storey slated rubble block adjoining at right-angles to the front; boarded door to the S side. The first floor of the main block has two 16-pane sashes to the centre with a 4-pane sash to the R and a 12-pane sash on the N gable; this side remains unwhitened.
Interior
Cross-passage plan originally, now sub-divided with C19 partitions. Stopped-chamfered beamed ceiling to ground-floor rooms with morticing evidence of former post-and-panel partitionning. In the former hall is a large fireplace with C19 range and stopped-chamfered bressummer. Late C17 or early C18 dog-leg stair with original square newels, oak treads and risers and moulded rail; the original balusters (flat, and no doubt shaped) were replaced in the C19 with plain pine stick balusters.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a Tudor regional house with good surviving character.
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