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
4677
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/10/1966
Date of Amendment
31/01/2005
Name of Property
Ty-Cerrig
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llangywer
Town
Locality
Llangywer
Easting
290644
Northing
331870
Street Side
Location
Set back, along a private driveway, from a minor country road leading off the B4403 in the hamlet of Llangower.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The present building at Ty-cerrig is a 2-storey building of L-shaped plan, with the oldest part represented by the base of the 'L' to the N end. The roof structure of that part suggests that the original building was a hall house, possibly extended to the rear and then converted to an agricultural range when the house at the S was built in C18 or early C19. The building had fallen into a derelict state and has been restored by the present owners in late C20/early C21. Additional traditional farm buildings to E.
Exterior
Two storey farmhouse in an L-shaped plan, built of local rubble masonry, whitewashed; slate roof, stone stacks with dripstones and capping. The older part of the building is the N wing; formerly a hall house, the present openings representing the conversion to use as a lofted agricultural wing. The entrance elevation faces N and has a wide cartbay to L (W) end with a casement window under the eaves above; 2 doorways to R (E) end flank an external flight of stone steps up to a loft doorway. There is a stack at L (W) gable and the return has a doorway offset to far L (S) and a single narrow loft window to R.
The main range is to the S, its principal elevation facing W. This comprises a 3-window range with central doorway (the extent denoted by a ridge stack) linked to the N wing by a single window bay with windows offset to L (S). A modern boarded door is housed in a pegged frame and the windows are timber casements; two ground floor windows with advanced rough stone lintels and first floor windows directly under the eaves.
Interior
The N wing retains 2 arch braced cruck trusses with cusping above the high collars; some wind braces to the purlins remain. A large fireplace with stone bressumer is at the W gable. The S range has been extensively modernised and has a replaced timber bressumer to the inglenook at the S gable, many original rough chamfered cross beams have been retained.
Reason for designation
Listed as a farmhouse range of good traditional character, of particular interest for the retention of a probably late medieval hall house of high status.
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