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
5129
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/11/1987
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Gazebo or Music room at Dolrhyd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
271640
Northing
318442
Street Side
Location
To S of Dolrhyd House at the edge of the forecourt. To NW of Dolgellau; reached up a short drive.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Built in 1763 by William Vaughan who married into the Nanney family, the original builders of the house.
Exterior
Single storey stone square building with slightly narrower bowed SW end which has three l2-pane sash windows overlooking the valley of the Afon Wnion. Coursed rubble, except to bow; battered rubble plinth, slate roof and projecting chimney breast to SE side with rubble stack. Pediment treatment to NE gable with blind attic roundel over l2-pane sash window. Unusually plain entrance to NW side with heavily studded door.
Interior
The interior retains an exceptionally fine and elaborate Adamesque segmental ceiling. Anthemion and palmette cornice; fan ornamented paterae, garlands and griffins etc ............. dado rail and lugged architrave to doorway. Restored in l980.
Reason for designation
Group value with Dolrhyd House and Stables and Barn ranges.
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