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
21337
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/02/1999
Date of Amendment
08/02/1999
Name of Property
Penychain Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llannor
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Morfa Abererch
Easting
242734
Northing
336263
Street Side
S
Location
The farm is on Pen-ychain headland, c4 km E of Pwllheli and close to the W side of the holiday camp, and is reached by a farm road from the A497.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Penychain was built by the Glynllifon Estate in the mid C19 as a model farm.
Exterior
The house is built of rubble stonework with a slate roof. The main garden front faces N, and is of 3 bays, gable end to the road, with a rear wing alongside the road and extending to a shorter cross range on the S. At the centre of the N front, a margin-glazed door with 5-pane rectangular overlight, set under a flat canopied concrete porch supported on iron Corinthian columns. Four-pane sash windows to both floors. Gable end stacks. The rear wing is of 3 bays, with timber windows and a gable end stack, while the S range is hipped in, running W, also with a gable end stack. The garden is surrounded by a high stone wall completing the rectangle which includes the main yard and farm buildings. The side entry to the rear yard on the S side of the rear wing retains the original metal slat gate.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good C19 farmhouse, and part of the well preserved Estate-designed farm group at Penychain.
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