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
7630
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1953
Date of Amendment
25/10/2002
Name of Property
Dolwar-fach (or Dolwar-fechan)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfihangel
Town
Welshpool
Locality
Dolwar
Easting
306342
Northing
314496
Street Side
Location
At the higher end of a farmyard about 2 km north of Dolanog.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Dolwar Fach was the home of the Welsh hymnologist Ann Griffiths (1776-1805). This successor house remains a place of pilgrimage for Welsh Methodists, including many from U.S.A.; the parlour is devoted to memorabilia of Ann Griffiths.
The farm was recorded in 1841 as a tenancy on the Wynnstay estate. The house of Ann Griffiths' time stood a few metres away from the position of the present house. The present house is a C19 stone farmhouse and still forms a compact group with its farm outbuilding ranges.
Exterior
A two-storey, two-window stone farmhouse of symmetrical design with stone front porch. The masonry is in axe-dressed informally coursed local stone. Slate roof with stone end-chimneys. Boarded main door. Modern replaced windows throughout, those at front retaining the original window proportions. The lower windows at front have stone arches. Brick rear extensions, part flat roofed.
Interior
Porch opens directly to main room at right; parlour at left.
Reason for designation
A C19 stone farmhouse in proximity to earlier farmyard ranges; listed especially for its association with Ann Griffiths, the noted late C18 Welsh revival hymnologist.
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