Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
84005
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/02/2005
Date of Amendment
25/02/2005
Name of Property
House adjacent to Bryn y Dolywyd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Maentwrog
Town
Locality
Vale of Ffestiniog
Easting
266877
Northing
341408
Street Side
Location
Slightly set back from the N side of the narrow country road that runs along the N side of the Vale of Ffestiniog between the A487(T) and the B4391; ENE of Maentwrog.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid to late C19 cottage, built on part of Glan yr afon, recorded in the tithe apportionment of the parish, 1840, as being owned by Richard Richards Humphreys Esq, Lord Tottenham and occupied by Thomas Lloyd, a farmer of close to 80 acres. Extended by the addition of a single storey wing to L (W) gable in C20 and appeared to under restoration at the time of the survey (July 2003).
Exterior
Two storey farmhouse, built of mortared rubble masonry with large stones as quoins and lintels. Slate roof with slightly advanced eaves and slate hung verges; rectangular stone stack with capping at R (E) gable and external square stack to L. The principal elevation faces the road and river valley to S, with central boarded door and flanking 2-light timber casement windows. The wing to L probably replaces an earlier service wing and has smooth rendered elevations and modern timber casement windows.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 farmhouse that retains traditional character and forms a group with the adjacent cottage orné at Bryn Doldwryd.
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