Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
4287
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/10/1971  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1999  
Name of Property
Gilfach  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Dolbenmaen  
Town
Dolbenmaen  
Locality
Cwm Pennant  
Easting
252700  
Northing
346884  
Street Side
 
Location
The house stands on the W side of the Cwm Pennant, approaching the head of the valley.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
The house was probably built as a farmhouse in the C18 or early C19, and may have been involved with the copper and slate extraction industries of the immedate area in the mid C19.  

Exterior
Built of local rubble stonework with a slate roof. Two storeys and attic, 3 bays with a central door with plain overlight, the door replaced in the 1930's. Early C19 20-paned iron windows to the ground floor, the central four panes hinged, and 16-paned hornless sash windows to the upper floor, all windows with stone lintels. A blocked window occurs at the S end of the ground floor, and a small window in the gable lights the attic. Tall gable end stacks with drip ledges. The building is connected to an outbuilding on the left (S) end, modernised, with an iron waterwheel introduced to its gable end, and it has a further single storey cross range at the N end, also modernised.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as being a good example of an C18 or early C19 farmhouse.  

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