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
4367
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
31/03/1999
Name of Property
Betws-bach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanystumdwy
Town
Criccieth
Locality
Ynys
Easting
247044
Northing
340975
Street Side
Location
The farmhouse lies on a minor road running N-S parallel and to the W of the B4411 and Rhos-lan, and S of Ynys.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A gentry house built in the late C17 on land originally held by the Bishop of Bangor up to 1649, by the Vaughan family of Corsedol. Robert Williams [Robert ap Gwilym Ddu] the poet and hymn writer, [1766-1850] lived and farmed here, and here he lost his young daughter in 1834. The house has been altered and modernised in the C20.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework, with a slate roof and gable stacks, the gable end and chimneys rendered. 2 storey and attics. The original building consists of two main rooms divided by a through corridor to a rear stair in a widened section. The room on the left was probably the main kitchen-living area, with a large open fireplace; the room on the right a parlour. A through passage extended along the rear wall. The building was extended to the N and W by 2 bays, with a gable stack. The main front has the door off-centre, and small 4-pane horned sash windows, 2 on the ground floor, 3 above in the earlier section, the openings having rendered surrounds. At the rear, a central gable, partially covered by the added single storey wing at the S end, which also has a gable stack, its N side altered. The N extension in line has the roof reduced in pitch at the rear. Similar detail to front elevation, and boarded door with overlight and 6-pane sash window. Roof at rear has four rooflights.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection. Said by RCAHM to have the original oak balusters to stairs, pegged tie beams to roof, otherwise the interior is modernised.
Reason for designation
Included as a large C17 farmhouse, retaining the character of a prosperous farm of the period, and for its associations with an important Welsh poet, Robert ap Gwilym-ddu.
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