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
5044
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Plas Uchaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
272828
Northing
317606
Street Side
Location
On the street line at Y Domen Fawr and facing up South Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mainly mid Cl9 with much later work and early Cl8 origins. Originally formed one house with property adjoining to SW.
Exterior
Principal elevation faces garden. 3 storey and cellar 3 window house. Rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roof, deep verges. Steeper pitch to rear facing Meyrick Street. Ashlar stack, grouped flues and moulded cap.
Garden front raised to give 3 gablets, ornate bargeboards. Shallow upper sash to 9 pane windows. 2 storey late Cl9 rectangular bay windows to left, 4 light window, centre 2 opening casements. Narrow 8 pane sash to centre of lst floor, 12 pane sash to right, stone lintels. Closed porch to ground floor right, panelled door. Central opening reduced to 4 pane window, stone lintel.
Rear elevation to Meyrick Street. Two l2 pane sash windows to lst floor, stone lintels. Evidence of lower sills. Mezzanine level stair window to right l6 small paned sash. Larger l2 pane sash window to ground floor left. Doorway to centre, stone lintel, panelled door. Slate tablet over inscribed "PLASUCHA CHR 1852". (Childlaw Roberts). Cut cellar stair window to extreme right, further cellar opening below left.
Interior
Mid Cl9 roof structure. Interesting dog leg stair; quatrefoil section rods, scrolled newel, pierced quatrefoil tread ends, with floral motif to centre. Partly altered hallway with Tudor arches, sunk panelled pilasters. Mid Cl9 panelled doors, moulded architraves. Former kitchen to cellar. Stump of stop chamfered beam, stone flagged floor.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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