History
Farmhouse, minor gentry house of mid to late C16, much altered, particularly after fire in 1996. Recorded as part of the Brysgaga estate of the Lloyds through the C17, David Lloyd assessed at 3 hearths in 1670. In 1727 Lewis Lewis of Dolclettwr was High Sheriff, and owner also of Brysgaga. Before 1736 owned by William Jones of Brysgaga, who died that year, and then by his son William, also of Brysgaga, High Sheriff 1766, who died in 1779, and then by his nephew, Major William Cobb Gilbertson, attorney, who moved to Dol Clettwr c 1800, and was there until his new house at Cefn Gwyn, Elerch, was finished c 1817. He sold Dol Clettwr c. 1834-5 to Henry Pelham, 4th Duke of Newcastle, owner of the Hafod estate, (given as owner on the 1844 Tithe Map, when Hugh Rowlands was tenant). By 1839 the Duke was trying to sell it, first to Lewis Pugh, mining adventurer from Aberystwyth, then by auction with a reserve of £9,000, finally sold with Hafod in 1846 to H. Hoghton. Later part of Gwynfryn estate, before James Griffiths, retired mariner and tenant in 1897, bought the farm, now owned by his grand-daughter.
The noted churchman the Rev Lewis Gilbertson was born at Dol Clettwr in 1814, he was Vice-Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
The house is a substantial stone-walled house dating probably from the mid to late C16, with Victorian additions and alterations. The house before the fire had 2 pairs of upper cruck trusses, exceptional in the county, of which parts remain. It was built as a storeyed rather than open-hall house with massive timbers surviving in the ground floor original room which has a massive chimney and had a winding stone stair adjoining. The diamond-mullion pre-glazing window was one of only two noted in the county.