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
21727
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/05/1999
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Morfa
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanaelhaearn
Town
Llanaelhaearn
Locality
Trefor
Easting
237036
Northing
347080
Street Side
Location
The house stands to the N and apart from the village, and is reached by a footway from the village, and now by a road through the former quarry depot.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The house is probably of the early C18 and became a major farm on Lord Newborough's Glynlifon Estate, important as it controlled the tramway from Yr Eifl quarry to the quay at Trefor, for which a tonnage charge was levied. It appears on the 1840 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Built of stone rubble, whitewashed, with a old grouted slate roof, coped at the SW end. Two storeys, 3 bays, with a lean-to outbuilding on the rear (SW) side and a service range in line. The main front of the dwelling house is symmetrical between gable end stacks. Central, modern glazed door and 4-pane sash windows, similar smaller windows to the first floor immediately under the eaves. Similar small windows at the rear, including either side of the lean-to dairy. The lower service building in line to the NW has similar windows including a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window on the front, and a gable end stack.
Interior
The interior has been altered, but retains transverse ceiling beams with small ogee mouldings. Open fireplaces with ovens and fire beams, and a curved recess at the side of the fireplace in the extension for a boiler. Ceiled at collar level on the first floor, the roof rafters renewed in the earlier C20. The upper floor of the range in line, known as the lloft gleision, was long used for the composing and reading of poetry for the village of Trefor.
Reason for designation
Inlcuded as a large traditional farmhouse retaining its original layout and a strong vernacular character its its detail.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export