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
5168
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Penamen House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
268915
Northing
318277
Street Side
NW
Location
Prominently situated on a rocky knoll overlooking the Mawddach estuary and reached via a drive from the W end of Penmaenpool village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late Victorian L-shaped remodelling of a smaller Cl6/Cl7 cross passage house.
Exterior
l+ storey, 3 window front range. Coursed rubble masonry, red sandstone dressings. Moderately pitched red tile roof, oversailing eaves, deep verges, exposed purlins, bargeboards. Rubble stacks, lateral stack to rear, water tabling.
3 gabled stone dormers, broader to centre. Deep verges, bargeboards, apex vents. Paired 2 light stone mullioned windows to centre, iron lights by Monks of Chester. Similar 3 light windows to flanking dormers. Glazed timber porch to right of centre. Gabled roof, half timbered gable over half-glazed double doors, stone plinth. Glazed and panelled inner double doors, stained and coloured glass. Three light mullioned window to right paired 2 light windows to left, 2 light windows to extreme left, plain labels. Rendered right gable end elevation.
Lateral chimney to centre of rear elevation, dormer to left, 2 light mullioned window. Small gabled stone dormer set wholly in roof, deep verges etc 2 light, mullioned window, tile hung cheeks. Advanced gabled bay to right, 2 light window. 3 light window to ground floor left, similar detail. Modern lean-to conservatory largely conceals ground floor. Service wing adjoins at right angles to right. Gabled stone dormer to left 3 light mullioned window. Lateral stack to right, modern cut window below. Two light window to gable end, stone mullions etc; similar to ground floor left door to right, stone surround. Stone mullioned dormer windows to E elevation. 2 light window to N gable end and ground floor right.
Interior
Interior retains ogee stop chamfered transverse ceiling beams, similar detail to bressumer of lateral fireplace. Early Cl8 staircase, cannon barrel balusters with bulbous bases, toads back handrail, square newels. Good late Cl9 internal fittings, doors, cornices etc. Three early Cl8 doors to lst floor, Cl9 architraves. 4 segmented Gothic "vault" in plaster to master bedroom. Roof timbers said to have trefoil cusping.
Reason for designation
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