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
5072
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Plas Coch
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
272866
Northing
317731
Street Side
Location
Set back from the street line behind a part railed, part walled forecourt adjoining the Unicorn PH.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
cl700.
Exterior
Three window house. Front elevation raised from two to three storeys in Cl9. Rubble masonry. Gently pitched slate roof to front, steeper original pitch to rear. Cl9 stone stack to right end, slate water tabling.
l6 pane sash windows set under eaves to 2nd floor. Similar to lst floor, stone lintels. l6 pane sash window to ground floor right. Central doorway, stone lintel over Cl9 four panel door, tall upper panels glazed. 6 pane shop window to left (from later Cl9 when premises used as butcher's shop), deep stone lintel.
Late Cl9 forecourt wall with contemporary railings and gate.
Small window to right end elevation, stone lintel.
Small stable forms cross range to rear of house; rubble masonry, gabled quarry slate roof.
Interior
Early Cl8 multiple cornice to hallway, projected over division between cellar and stair. Contemporary panelled partitions to staircase hall rise through building. Large rectangular panels. Good early Cl8 stair, sturdy turned balusters and newels; pronounced toads back moulded handrail swept up at half landings; wave moulded tread ends. One original door to ground floor left, two to lst floor landing; 2 large fielded panels, plain architraves. Panelled partitions form small closet at lst floor landing, and one wall of lst floor rooms. Transverse ceiling beams. Cl9 panelled doors to top landing.
Reason for designation
Group value with Unicorn PH and Clifton House Hotel.
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