21552

 

II  

Designated  

30/03/1999  

30/03/1999  

Washhouse Building at Plas Dolbenmaen  

 

Gwynedd  

Dolbenmaen  

Dolbenmaen  

Dolbenmaen  

250660  

343048  

 

The group of farm buildings lie immediately W of Plas Dolbenmaen, and form a yard with the motte in the W corner. The washhouse is adjacent to the house, and gable end on to the NE 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 date to that or a subsequent period.  

Built of local stone rubble, originally with a slate roof. The washhouse stands close to the house, and forms, with the NW and NE ranges of farm buildings the farmyard against the W side of the farmhouse. It has a door and window facing into the yard.  

Not accessible at the time of inspection.  

Included, notwithstanding its present condition, as an essential element in the fine group of farm buildings for a major farm of the district, and which have not been modernised since the C19. Of group value with the other farm buildings and the Scheduled motte.