23745

 

II  

Designated  

21/07/2000  

21/07/2000  

Bryngwdion  

 

Gwynedd  

Llanllyfni  

Caernarfon  

Pontllyfni  

244417  

353366  

 

Located in pasture fields at the end of a farm track running off the east side of the minor road, which turns off the A 499 towards Pont-y-cim; the farmhouse sits to the west of its farmyard.  

Domestic  

 

Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the farmhouse is likely to have been built in the early C19 with a further phase of remodelling c1850.  

Basic T-plan comprising symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay entrance range, aligned east-west and facing north, with equal-height range at right-angles on rear. Roughly coursed rubblestone; slate roof. Entrance front has three 4-paned sashes with slate cills directly below eaves, with 6-paned sash to left and 4-paned sash to right of central 4-panel door (top panels glazed); integral end stacks, right gable end with small 4-paned casement on first floor and C20 2-light window on ground floor. Back wall has single casement with horizontal glazing bar on first floor and small 4-paned sash to ground floor on right of rear range. This has 2 sash windows directly below eaves on east side, 12-paned to left (unhorned) and 4-paned to right; ground floor has paired 8-paned sashes to left and gabled porch to right with brick round-headed outer arch and inner boarded door under narrow overlight; integral stack to left gable end which has C20 window on first floor and 4-paned sash to ground floor. Single-storey lean-to addition (?dairy) on west side.  

Interior not accessible at time of Survey.  

Included as an early C19 farmhouse, built in the local vernacular tradition, remodelled as the farm expanded c1850; the central building of a characteristic, largely unaltered lowland farmstead of the area.