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
4997
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Dolgellau & Barmouth District Hospital
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
273048
Northing
317571
Street Side
Location
Situated an rising ground overlooking the town immediately to the SW of Ysgol y Gader Secondary School.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
1929 by Herbert North of Bangor. Cost £5,000, £2,000 of which was a bequest by a Mrs Douthwaite of Aberdovey. 1933 extension to NE incorporating consulting rooms. 1938 theatre block extension to SW. Subsequent sympathetic extensions, chiefly to SE.
Exterior
Single storey. Whitewashed roughcast on rubble plinth. Steeply pitched roofs with array of gables and raking dormers, slates laid to diminishing courses. Swept oversailing eaves carried on kneelers and corbels, close verges. Brick stacks, slated gabled shoulders to that over theatre block.
Advanced entrance bay to centre of original NW block of 1929. 2 storey gabled bays set at angles to form inverted V spanned by low broad pointed stack brick arch to centre carrying tall gable with deep small paned window, iron cames. Pointed doorway, iron studded double doors, modern steps. Commemorative foundation stones flank doorway. Single light windows to inner flanks of angled bays, 3 light small paned iron windows to ground floors and attics, some replaced. Similar to spine of advanced bay, raking dormers to roof.
Other elevations with tall small paned iron windows set into gables or shallower below low eaves.
Half hip over theatre wing to SW. Roof sweeps out to form shouldered canopy over theatre window to gable end. Large plate glass window with sidebars, roller blind shutter externally to top. Shouldered buttresses to flanks of wing.
Modern ranges to SE lacking iron windows and with lower pitched roofs not of special interest.
Interior
Reason for designation
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