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
83471
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/12/2004
Date of Amendment
30/12/2004
Name of Property
Ty Gwyn Mawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Talsarnau
Town
Locality
Llanfihangel y Traethau
Easting
259960
Northing
335490
Street Side
Location
At the N end of the village of Ynys, where the Afon y Glyn meets the Glastraeth estuary.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early to mid C19 warehouse, completed following the reclamation of Traeth Mawr. Recorded in the tithe apportionment of the parish, 1842, owned and occupied by Richard Pritchard. The house was formerly known as 'Y Warws' and was used to store corn ferried across Traeth Bach and coal was dumped into a hole 'twll glo' nearby. Both commodities would be collected by horse and cart and the warehouse was also a stopping off point for ferry passengers and an informal public house and gathering place for locals.
Exterior
The building comprises warehouse to right (east), and domestic accommodation to the left. Three storey with cellar. Built of coursed, roughly dressed local stone; slate roof with broad stone stacks with dripstones and capping delineating the extent of the domestic accommodation.
The principal elevation faces S with the accommodation to L (W) a 2-window range with doorway within a modern grit rendered porch to R; windows are 6-pane horned sashes. The warehouse to R has a double boarded door at ground floor level and 2-blocked windows in the storeys above. The E gable has boarded doorways to each storey and a winch hole set in the gable apex. The rear (N) wall of the dwelling has 6-pane horned sash windows at ground and 2nd storey level and retains the original 16-pane hornless sash windows at the 1st floor. The warehouse part has small openings between storeys.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual, and little altered, coastal building combining warehouse and dwelling. Of interest historically as a rare surviving building type which gives evidence for coastal trade in this area.
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