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
23358
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Pentre Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Nant Ffrancon
Easting
263932
Northing
361545
Street Side
Location
Remote roadside position on minor valley road running parallel with the A5 along the Ogwen valley; low rubblestone wall in front of farmhouse with stone-on-edge coping and iron gate and steps to centre; spectacular mountain backdrop.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Not shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, the farmhouse was probably built c1850 as part of the expansion of farming in the remote Ogwen valley at this period, much of which sponsored by the Penrhyn Estate. The road on which the farmhouse is situated is the so-called "old road", an improvement by the Estate in 1790-1 of what Thomas Pennant had described as "the most dreadfull horsepath in Wales". Several other farms are sited on this road, which was effectively superseded as the main through route along the Ogwen valley by the building of the turnpike road on its eastern side in 1802.
Exterior
2-storey, roughly symmetrical 3-bay front. Rendered rubblestone, painted to front; slate roof with coped verges. Three 6-paned sashes with slate cills on first floor (probably original) and 2 on ground floor, one to each side of slightly offset entrance with C20 boarded door under C20 lean-to porch; tall integral end stacks. Lean-to to rear.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved mid-C19 farmhouse in the late Georgian tradition with contemporary farmbuildings, illustrative of the colonisation of marginal agricultural land at this period and forming a typically distinctive component of this rugged upland landscape.
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