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
23874
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/08/2000
Date of Amendment
07/08/2000
Name of Property
Dolgynlas farmhouse with attached outbuilding ranges
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Betws Gwerfil Goch
Town
Corwen
Locality
Betws Gwerfil Goch
Easting
301437
Northing
347261
Street Side
Location
In a secluded position in the Alwen valley nearly 1 km NW of Pont Llyn Gigfran. Small walled garden to front, yards and farm buildings to rear.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The farm buildings at Dolgynlas carry a datestone carved 'W A 1656'; the farmhouse is possibly contemporary but with later alteration to the window joinery. In the Tithe Survey (1845) the farmhouse is recorded as in the ownership and occupation of Hugh Jones esq., with a farm of 350 acres (141.6ha).
Exterior
A farmhouse standing a little apart from its farm buildings. Low rear wing with a bakehouse and shed, bounded by a walled yard.
The house is a three-window range, of two storeys, facing south-east. Local rubble masonry in very large blocks, almost cyclopean; slate roof with tile ridge and slated verges. Stone end-chimneys. Three modern rooflights at front. The front fenestration is of three windows, symmetrical but slightly offset to the left by the presence of a large hearth to the right. The windows are of C19 timber casement type, the central window above the door being of two lights and the others of three lights. Segmental arches of brick above and stone below. Modern brick porch. Two upper rear windows of the original house remain visible, with modern casements.
A later single-storey longitudinal rear extension is also slate roofed and has a modern porch and windows. The outbuilding range at right-angles is also a later addition to the main house, in small rubble masonry, slate roofed with tile ridge and stone chimneys. Boarded door to bakehouse, small window, segmental brick-arched opening to cartshed; also attached to the latter wing at rear is a small early C20 four-door range of calf stalls in similar materials.
Interior
The right hand unit was the kitchen; its hearth is modernised but retains its original timber bressummer.
Reason for designation
A fine vernacular farmhouse in local materials which has retained its character.
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