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
4273
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
15/07/1998
Name of Property
Tyn-y-coed Isaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Buan
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Rhydyclafdy
Easting
230666
Northing
336244
Street Side
Location
Situated some 1.1 km NW of the B4415 road, off lane to Madryn, NW of Bodgadle.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former estate farmhouse, probably early C18. Marked on 2" OS drawings of 1816-19. 1841 Tithe Map for Llanfihangel Bachellaeth records the owner as Sir Love Parry-Jones of Madryn, and the occupant as Robert Ellis.
Exterior
Substantial farmhouse of two storeys and attic. Uncoursed granite rubble walls with large boulders in foundation course and graduating to small at eaves. Openings have stone slab lintels. Purple slate roof with two squat end-chimneys, larger and stone to left, pebbledashed to right. Four small roof-lights. S front is heavily offset to right with 3-window range right and a single additional ground floor window to left, well in from left wall. 6-pane hornless sash windows and boarded door in added brick gabled porch. Rear N elevation has asymmetrical fenestration, small casement each floor to left and right of a stair-light casement pair, the whole offset left. Two boarded doors below and each side of stair light. Windows are 4-pane except 6-pane to first floor left. Small C20 casement with brick jambs in fireplace wall to far right.
Interior
Ground-floor has large cross-beams, inglenook bressumer, and exposed ceiling joists. Rear stair opposite front door with remnants of former cross-passage partition. First-floor has four bays.
Reason for designation
An exceptionally well-preserved example of a substantial C18 vernacular farmhouse.
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