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
5142
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Brynrhug Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
271805
Northing
316258
Street Side
Location
Situated where the Ffridd meets the lower slopes of the mountain at the end of a long farm track some 700m E of the junction with the Cregennan road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Cl7 with various Cl8 alterations.
Exterior
2 storey (eaves raised), 3 window. Coursed rubble masonry, boulder foundations. Moderately pitched quarry slate roof, plain eaves, deep verges, plain bargeboards. Tall square stone stacks, moulded caps, water tabling.
Shallow upper sashes to l2 pane windows at lst floor left and centre, deeper l2 pane sash to right, all under eaves. l6 pane sash to ground floor left and right, stone lintels. Doorway to left of centre, stone lintel. Slate hood on iron brackets, door of 2 glazed panels over 2 flush panels. Small, 4 pane fixed light window to immediate right of door, stone lintel.
Later outshots and Cl9 gabled cross wing to rear elevation set against hillside. Modern rendered stack. Modern porch to side of outshot.
Good cobbled yard set into rectangles with kerbstones to front.
Later Cl9 house with twin gabled dormers adjoins to left.
Interior
Re-ordered cl758. Stop chamfered transverse ceiling beams. Ogee stop chamfered joists. Timber bressumer, partly cut away. Cl7 plank and muntin partitions re-used to form entrance hall. (Later ?) ovolo moulded plank and muntin partitions rise alongside stairwell to lst floor. Cl8 stair, sturdy turned balusters, square newels, bipartite handrail swept up to landings. Splat balusters to top landing. Stair window partly retains leaded glazing and cross shape. 3 bay roof with 2 through purlin collared trusses, splayed feet to principals.
Reason for designation
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