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
3745
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Gwastad Annas (Old House)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Beddgelert
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Afon Glaslyn
Easting
265668
Northing
353623
Street Side
Location
Located towards the NE boundary of the community, at the northern end of the Glaslyn valley; sited to the rear of and below the present late C19 farmhouse and accessed via the old valley road running northwards from the A498 near Hafod Llwyfog.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House of late medieval origins. Dendrochronological investigation has provided a felling date of 1508 for two cruck-blades, and a date of c1539-75 for the bresummer beam over the hall fireplace, demonstrating the insertion of a fireplace into a cruck-framed hall. Part of the Aberconwy Monastic lands farmed from 1508 and later bought by the Wynn family of Gwydir. Named as Iwasdainas in Ministers Accounts of 1536.
Exterior
2-unit lobby entry house with later addition in line. Of whitened rubble construction with C20 slate roof (rubble gable parapets lost), with squat central chimney; weathercoursing and simple capping. Stone hoods above primary openings with C20 glazing. Off-centre entrance (to L) with stopped-chamfered frame and recessed boarded door; flanking windows and a further, blocked opening immediately to L. Further window and boarded entrance in later addition to far R. The rear has a 10-pane turn-of-the-century casement in a former door opening, with 6-pane flanking casements. Further entrance to L with boarded door; this is recessed between 2 C20 lean-to additions, that to the L larger and both with corrugated iron roofs. Four-pane late C19/early C20 sash to the upper L gable.
Interior
Lobby entry plan with parlour to the L and former hall to the R of the chimney. Wide stopped-chamfered bressummer to hall fireplace, with similar lateral ceiling beam and stone-flagged floor; C19 ceiling joists and boarded doors. An enclosed C19 corkscrew stair with pine boarding leads to the upper floor from the hall. Two-bay collar truss roof to primary section, with C19 superimposed roof structure.
Reason for designation
Listed at grade II* as an exceptionally well preserved example of a stone-built late medieval hall-house, securely dated to the C16 and retaining good traditional character.
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