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
3577
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/07/1992
Date of Amendment
17/07/1992
Name of Property
Ysgwyfraith
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Bro Machno
Town
Locality
Penmachno Mill
Easting
280010
Northing
351653
Street Side
Location
Above and to SE of B4406.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C18 origins as single storey plus crog loft. Alterations in later C19 and C20. House now faces roughly W towards valley, formerly E side was main front.
Exterior
One and a half storey, three window house. Local random rubble, but higher quality dressed stone on E side (former front). Slate roof. Tall end stone chimneys, that to R more massive. Front wall runs up as three gabled dormers with late C19 type sash windows; dormers have late C19 type bargeboards. Entrance door beneath shallow gabled porch in rendered brick. Two windows to L of porch, one to R, all 2-light casements beneath deep stone lintels. Lean-to addition to L. Rear has single-storey outshot at L (south), formerly dairy, with former wheel pit to S. Small modern flat-topped dormer above outshot. E elevation has doorway with segmental head of thin voussoirs with drip mould over. To R of doorhead datestone 'RWM 1757'. To R of doorway two square windows under under simple stone lintels have modern casement glazing.
Interior
Ingle-nook fireplace to S end of house under deep cambered wooden lintel. Said to be further fireplace at N end concealed by modernisation.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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