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
23207
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/04/2000
Date of Amendment
10/04/2000
Name of Property
Ty'n-y-bryn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Town
Tywyn
Locality
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Easting
265884
Northing
308002
Street Side
Location
The house stands on the road from Llanfihangel to Bryncrug, facing N, approximately 200m N of Pont Ystumanner.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The present farmhouse is a renovation or replacement in the late C18 or early C19 of an older farmhouse, the birthplace of Dr William Owen-Pughe, scholar and lexicographer, who was born here in 1759, moving away at the age of 3. He took the name of Pughe in 1806 as the result of a legacy, and was brought up in the academically stimulating household of Egryn, Llanaber. He migrated to London in 1776, where he took a major part in the life of the Welsh expatriot community, including publishing The Myrvyan Archaiology of Wales. He acquired a great knowledge of early texts, and, in 1803, he published his major work, the Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg. His idiosyncratic beliefs and devoted work on the origin of the language gave rise to the notion that Welsh is the 'language of heaven'. In 1838 the house was owned by J G Scott and tenanted by Morris Roberts, the land extending to 129 acres (52ha).
Exterior
Built of squared rubble, with a replaced slate roof with deep verges. Two storeys, 4 window bays. Margin glazed door with an overlight in the second bay from the E, set in a stop-chamfered frame. Twelve-paned unhorned sash windows, and 9-pane single sashes to the upper floor. Yellow-grey slate lintels, probably from Bryneglwys Quarry. The fourth bay, beyond the western stack, probably replaces a former in-line farm building. It is wider, and has a gable stack, with an attached lean-to at the pebbledashed W end. A commemorative plaque was attached to the front wall in October 1988.
Interior
Not inspected at the time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-proportioned earlier C19 farmhouse retaining original doors and windows. and particularly for its association with the Welsh scholar William Owen-Pughe.
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