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
4901
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/04/1951
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Tyn-y-Coed
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Barmouth
Town
Locality
Barmouth
Easting
261425
Northing
315687
Street Side
SW
Location
Set back slightly from the street; flanking sections of dwarf wall with decorative Victorian railings terminating in deeply stopped- chamfered piers with ball finials and foliate decoration.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
A late Georgian town house of c.1800 with Victorian alterations. Of rough-dressed, coursed stone under a shallow-pitched slate roof. Symmetrical facade of 3 bays on 3 storeys plus outer gabled attic dormers. Central entrance with plain C20 single-storey wooden porch; plain columns supporting a pediment with re-used Victorian foliate finial; balustraded sides, the turned balusters mostly missing. Arched entrance with stuccoed entablature, now partly obscured by the porch. Fine recessed contemporary door of 6 moulded panels and good contemporary segmental fanlight above. C20 15-pane modern bow windows to ground-floor with blind boxes above. Original 15-pane near-flush sashes to first floor with modern external slatted shutters; projecting stone cills. Similar 9-pane sashes above, that to the L with 2 upper panes replacing the original 3.Steeply-gabled dormers to L and R bays above, relating to a late C19 raising; bargeboards with chevron decoration and foliate finials together with decorative ridge tiles. 6-pane slightly recessed sashes. Plain gable chimneys, that to the R with decorative Victorianpots. Small skylight to roof.
Interior
Reason for designation
A late Georgian town house with good door and fanlight in a prominent location on the High Street.
Group value with other listed items on the High Street.
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