Pen-y-Vivod

Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Vivod, Llangollen, Denbighshire, designated on 22 December 1989.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Pen-y-Vivod, Llangollen, Denbighshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade II
Broad class: Domestic
Date of designation: 22 December 1989
Locality: Vivod
Community: Llangollen
Unitary authority: Denbighshire
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 52.97128, -3.21264
Cadw reference: 1283

TodayHistorical map

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).

Historical maps covering this location

1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Location

Set at right angles to the slope. Reached by a lane rising N from the Bryn-newydd Home Farm settlement.

History

Probably early C19; a Vivod estate house were Mr Ellerton lived while the early C19 Vivod house was being built. Also said to have been once a quarryman's cottage.

Exterior

2-storey 3-window colourwashed front with slate roof and red brick end chimney stacks. 2 and 3-light casement windows, tiny staircase window to centre, camber headed window to ground floor left and top-hung overlight added to right hand window. Deep gabled porch offset to right of centre with small pane window to the front and sheltered side entrance; finial broken. An attached low rubble wall to left encloses the forecourt and rises up in front of the former bakehouse and round in front of the well. Stepped down and well back to the left, upper, end is the single storey former bakehouse; rubble chimney stack to left end and 2-light casement window with timber lintel; entrance is to rear. Pebbledash right gable end and rear with narrower lean-to.

Interior

The interior has boxed in beams and boarded doors; brick oven retained to bakehouse.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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