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
4287
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
30/03/1999
Name of Property
Gilfach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolbenmaen
Town
Dolbenmaen
Locality
Cwm Pennant
Easting
252700
Northing
346884
Street Side
Location
The house stands on the W side of the Cwm Pennant, approaching the head of the valley.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The house was probably built as a farmhouse in the C18 or early C19, and may have been involved with the copper and slate extraction industries of the immedate area in the mid C19.
Exterior
Built of local rubble stonework with a slate roof. Two storeys and attic, 3 bays with a central door with plain overlight, the door replaced in the 1930's. Early C19 20-paned iron windows to the ground floor, the central four panes hinged, and 16-paned hornless sash windows to the upper floor, all windows with stone lintels. A blocked window occurs at the S end of the ground floor, and a small window in the gable lights the attic. Tall gable end stacks with drip ledges. The building is connected to an outbuilding on the left (S) end, modernised, with an iron waterwheel introduced to its gable end, and it has a further single storey cross range at the N end, also modernised.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as being a good example of an C18 or early C19 farmhouse.
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