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
4096
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
27/05/1949  
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988  
Name of Property
The Old Farmhouse  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Bangor  
Town
 
Locality
Penybryn  
Easting
259041  
Northing
372463  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on the terrace above the sunken section of the old Holyhead road cutting and reached by the road by the Golf Club. Penybryn House detached to left.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Late C18  

Exterior
Symmetrical. 5-bay, 2-storey scribed cement render front with attics to advanced gabled bays at either end. Slate roof with wide eaves to gables and brick chimney stacks. 12-pane sash windows, one dummy to centre over 6-panel door with oval traceried fanlight; arched headed sash windows to attic and modern windows in inner return walls of gabled bays. Rubble boundary walls attached to either end with boarded doors; to left bordering with Penybryn House. Small pane sash windows at rear including 2 arched headed window to centre and sliding sash on right hand cross range. Late Georgian iron railings dating from the construction of the old Holyhead road (ca 1817) curve around from Penybryn Bridge and continue along the terrace wall to the left.  

Interior
Modernised interior in conversion to two houses.  

Reason for designation
Group value with Penybryn House, Penybryn Bridge, the old road cutting and the Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel.  

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