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
22607
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999
Name of Property
Tan-y-bwlch Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Mawddwy
Town
Machynlleth
Locality
Dinas Mawddwy
Easting
286300
Northing
314819
Street Side
Location
The farm lies on a level platform in the valley bottom directly E of Dinas Mawddwy, and is reached by a long drive along the E side of the river from its junction with the main A470 at Minllyn.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The farmhouse was built by the Vaughan family, of Nannau, in 1833, the date and initials RM and AM V (Richard Williams Vaughan Bt) appearing with the date on the main front gable. In 1841 it had 44 acres (17.8ha) of attached land. The farm was later adopted as the home farm for the Buckley Estate.
Exterior
Farmhouse, in the picturesque neo-vernacular characteristic of estate work in the early C19. Built of roughly coursed local rubble stonework, and whitewashed on the principal elevation, with a slate roof. Two storeys, comprising a long NW-SE range with a central cross range forming projecting gables at front and back. It has been extended by a lower 11/2 storey single bay at the NW end. The main entrance is now at the rear in the angle with the rear wing; a part-glazed door. On the ground floor of the front gable, a square bay window with a hipped slate roof; modern glazed window perhaps replacing a door in what was probably the original porch. Above a small window and, within the deep eaved gable, a large painted letter V, and initials RM and AM, with the date. To either side, paned timber casement windows on both floors, and one 2-light window at the SE gable end, where there is also a blocked door. Central tall stone stack with ovolo moulded outsetting head, and a further stack on the gable of the rear range.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as an good example of a firmly dated Regency period farmhouse built for an estate, and which was later adopted as the home farm for the Buckley Estate.
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