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
3190
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/10/1966
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Cwm Fynhadog-Isaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Dolwyddelan
Town
Locality
Cwm Fynhadog-Isaf
Easting
268828
Northing
350639
Street Side
Location
At the end of the valley where the Afon Lledr originates, some 3.5km SW of Blaenau Dolwyddelan, and some 250m N of the Blaenau railway tunnel entrance; accessed via a long farm track leading SW from a metalled lane from Blaenau Dolwyddelan.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small late C17 2-unit farmhouse with projecting end chimney. The latter appears to have been repaired and strengthened by `RO' (presumably a Robert Owen) in 1723, since a crude supporting strut bearing the inscribed initials and date has been inserted on one side of the (earlier) fireplace bressummer. Apparently used as a field hospital during the construction of the nearby railway tunnel (c1879), the farmhouse was subsequently given new windows and entrances and extended to the SW.
Exterior
One-and a-half storey rubble farmhouse with slate roof and projecting end chimney to R; squat stack with weathercoursing and plain capping, the latter with later, narrower heightening. Entrance to L of primary section, with Victorian part-glazed door. To the R a modern out-of-character window in widened opening. Gabled half-dormers to upper floor with victorian 4-pane sash windows and projecting slate cills. Flush with the primary block and stepped-down slightly to the L, a later C19 extension with modern part-glazed door and plain-glazed window to R; 2 further, similar dormers to upper floor. Modern windows to the rear including a dormer window as before to the projecting primary house.
Adjoining to the L and stepped-down, a single-storey byre addition; construction as before. Wide stable entrance to R.
Interior
Stopped-chamfered beam and joists to ceiling of R ground-floor room (former hall). Large flat bressummer (re-used or repositioned) to wide fireplace with a carved supporting strut at L bearing inscribed initials R O and date 1723; contemporary with this modification is an inserted lateral ceiling beam, chamfered and clearly re-used.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a C17 vernacular farmhouse with early C18 alterations.
Group value with adjoining stable block.
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