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
21284
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1999
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Pentre Gwyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Betws Garmon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Betws Garmon
Easting
253048
Northing
357784
Street Side
W
Location
Located about 0.5 km north-west of Betws Garmon in a lowland position in front of dense coniferous woodland on rising ground off a track running westwards from the A 4085.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Original 3-bay early C19 farmhouse, extended by a wide single bay to the left c1850 at which time the present windows were installed.
Exterior
Farmhouse. Limewashed uncoursed rubblestone, rendered to rear and left gable end. 2 storeys. Original 3-bay house, extended to the left by a wide single bay (see straight joint). Victorian 4-pane sashes with slate cills to left and right of originally central entrance with plain boarded door; roundel above with limewashed brick surround and traces of a painted fictive window; Victorian sashes, also with slate cills, on both floors of addition. Rendered integral end stacks, larger to right, and former end stack (now ridge stack) at junction between the 2 phases of the house. 2-storey lean-to (perhaps a stable) to right gable end has roundel above boarded door.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial early C19 farmhouse, built in the regional vernacular tradition and prominently sited in the landscape.
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