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
23315
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/05/2000
Date of Amendment
25/05/2000
Name of Property
Rhos-farch
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pennal
Town
Machynlleth
Locality
Pennal
Easting
269496
Northing
301305
Street Side
Location
The farmhouse is located in undulating country, 1km NW of the centre of the village, and is reached from a farm road off the minor road to Pennal-isaf.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built probably in the early C19 as an upgrading of a previous house on the same site.
Exterior
Built of stone and limewashed, with a slate roof. Two storey, 3 bays. Central 4-panelled door within a C20 lean-to porch, and 12-pane unhorned sash windows, 3 to the upper floor, and to either side of the front door, that on the left 16-paned. Gable end brick stacks, the left gable pebbledashed. Lean-to on the right end gable built of rubble with quartz, and an old slate roof. To the rear, a continuous outshut, raised later to 2 storeys and provided with 3 gabled dormers, all margin-glazed.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C19 farmhouse built in the Georgian tradition, reflecting the increased prosperity of farming at that time.
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