Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16035
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/05/1995
Date of Amendment
26/05/1995
Name of Property
Dol-Ganedd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Brithdir and Llanfachreth
Town
Locality
Bont Newydd
Easting
277586
Northing
320044
Street Side
Location
Located 1km N of Brithdir village and 250m SE of the Bont Newydd. Accessed via a farm track leading E from the B 4416.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Large c.1700 one-and-a-half storey vernacular farmhouse with later C19 alterations.
Exterior
Rubble construction with old slate roof and rendered end chimneys with weather-coursing. 4-bay main (S) front with entrance to bay 2; this via 4 stone steps. Later whitened rubble porch with hipped slate roof; ribbed, boarded door. 4-pane recessed C19 sash windows to both floors, those to the firs tsmaller and contained within rubble hipped dormers. To the R a later extension with long mono-pitch roof; modern wooden garage doors to former cart entrance and deeply-recessed shuttered light above. To the rear, 3 dormers as before and 6 and 4-panee C20 windows. Modern extension to R with hipped slate roof.
Interior
6-panelled door to ground-floor L room; this with ogee stopped-chamfered main beams. Full beamed ceiling to R room with detailing as before; fireplace with plain topped-chamfered bressummer. Good, simple contemporary dog-leg stair with panelled newel posts with flat tops; turned balusters and an upper bobbin-turned landing.
Reason for designation
An early vernacular farmhouse with well-preserved historic character.
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