21551

 

II  

Designated  

30/03/1999  

30/03/1999  

NE Range of Farm Buildings at Plas Dolbenmaen  

 

Gwynedd  

Dolbenmaen  

Dolbenmaen  

Dolbenmaen  

250685  

343071  

 

The group of farm buildings lie immediately W of Plas Dolbenmaen farmhouse. The NE range lies parallel to the old road, and end on to the NW range.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

The house, the site of a princely court and centre of the demesne of Dolbenmaen, was one of only two in the district registered with 2 hearths in the 1662 return. It was probably rebuilt in the early C18 on the same site of long occupation, and the farm buildings were apparently modified in the early-mid C19.  

Built of local stone rubble, and originally with a slate roof. The NE range is end on to the NW range across the entrance driftway to the the farmyard on the W side of the house. A 2-bay building with stalling in the SE bay, perhaps originally intended as a stable, with an internal ladder to the grain or hay storage loft over. The building has an external stone stair at the NW gable end.  

 

Included, notwithstanding the present condition, as part of the complete collection of farm buildings for a major farm, and ones which have not been modernised since the C19. Of group value with Plas Dolbenmaen farmhouse and other ranges, including the Scheduled motte.