Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19617
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1998
Date of Amendment
01/04/1998
Name of Property
Rhydgaled
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanengan
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Nanhoron
Easting
228483
Northing
331578
Street Side
Location
Situated on E side of B4415 just N of junction with B4413 at Nanhoron.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 Nanhoron estate house with attached forge. A stone reset on corner has 1788 or 1728 date inscribed. Marked on 1839 Tithe Map as Rhydgaled Smithy House occupied by Thomas Roberts.
Exterior
House, rubble stone in long dark green rough-faced blocks with slate roof and stone end stacks, larger to left. Two-storey, double-fronted and offset to right, with 2x16-pane hornless sashes each floor and half-glazed door between. Slate sills, slab lintels. Large W side lean-to with 6-pane upper window and 16-pane lower window in S end. Broad opening on W side. Rear wing with red brick N end stack. Attached to NW corner of W lean-to is former smithy with N end stone stack, S end door with slab lintel and wall carried across with flat parapet from S gable to house NW corner. One metal window on W side.
Interior
Smithy has massive N end fireplace with curved timber bressumer and one collar-truss to roof.
Reason for designation
Included as good well-preserved example of traditional house in late Georgian style with surviving smithy.
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