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
221
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1968
Date of Amendment
05/01/1996
Name of Property
Cefn Garlleg Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
Town
Locality
Cefn Garlleg
Easting
282067
Northing
376575
Street Side
Location
Located some 3km NE of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy on a slightly elevated site; accessed via a long track leading N from a minor road running SE ultimately from the A 547 near Bryn Eisteddfod to meet the B5113 (upper Llanrwst Road). Set behind rubble
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Second-half C16 storeyed house associated with the Williams family (of Cochwillan) and traditionally held to be the birthplace of John Williams (1582-1660), Archbishop of York and Lord Keeper under King Charles 1st.
Exterior
Of rendered rubble with modern slate roof and tall, rendered end chimneys, that to the R projecting and gabled. Three-bay asymmetrical front. Central entrance with boarded door and 5-pane rectangular fan; out-of-character mid C20 brick porch. C19 slightly-recessed 12-pane sash windows to R of entrance on both floors, that to the first unusually low; similar window type above porch. C20 window to L of entrance on ground floor and 16-pane sash as before to first floor above. Low C19 wash house extension to L with end chimney and oven projection beyond. To the rear, 3 flush gabled wings, that to the L apparently earlier and that to the R with plain rendered end chimney. 6-and 12-pane sash windows to first floor and a deeply-recessed boarded door to the ground floor centre. C19 catslide rubble projection extruded in the corner between the R wing and the wash house.
Interior
Good framed ceiling to former hall (ground floor L) with moulded and run-out-stopped beams and joists, characteristic of third-quarter C16 date. Large inglenook fireplace with C19 fireplace within. Late C16 or C17 plasterwork cartouche above fireplace with a dragon tied to a column shown in relief; modern polychromy.
Reason for designation
A late C16 storeyed house with interesting historical associations and with some good surviving interior detail.
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