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
5229
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/11/1986
Date of Amendment
31/01/1995
Name of Property
Dower House at Llwyndu
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Barmouth
Town
Locality
Llanaber
Easting
260006
Northing
318535
Street Side
Location
Immediately to the W of the main house and at right-angles with it.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late C16/early C17 dwelling; this may have served as a formof dower house, or alternatively as a steward's house.
Exterior
2-storey rubble cottage with undulating slate roof andstone-coped, kneelered gable parapets; boulder foundations. Tall endstack to S gable with weather coursing and contemporary capping.Off-centre (L) doorway to E side to which one now steps down; smallsquare light below the eaves to the R. 2 projecting stones to the Sgable support the lintel of the fireplace internally and are thuscantelevered. Lean-to addition to N gable end, probably C19;overhanging eaves to rear (W). 2 square window openings and a lean-toprivy.
Interior
3-bay, formerly storeyed; pegged collar trusses with ridge beam and purlins. Large rubble chimneybreast and broad fireplace with C19 brick-lined bread oven.
Reason for designation
Included at grade II* as a scarce, largely unaltered example of a small-scale sub-medieval dower/steward's house.
Group value with other listed items at Llwyndu.
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