Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hafod-tan-yr-eglwys (Formerly Ty-gwyn)
Bodfari, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bodfari Village, Bodfari, Denbighshire, designated on 16 November 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Locality
- Bodfari Village
- Community
- Bodfari
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22030, -3.36110
- Cadw reference
- 1388
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately west of St. Stephen's Church, on a site raised above the roads of the village. Rubble limestone wall to front with iron gate.
History
The house may have a mid-C18 origin; the date 1760 is said to be written on a first-floor cupboard door. A building on this site is identified in 1843 as a 'poor cottage'. The present fine Regency style structure must date from an extensive improvement or rebuild shortly after this. The house has an additional bay to the west. A large lean-to extension to the north is thought to date from c.1900.
Exterior
A house of three storeys and three windows, thought to be of brick, stuccoed and scored with lines to imitate stone courses and painted white. Slight plinth. Low-pitch slate roof with overhangs at verges. Elaborately carved sinuous openwork barge boards. End-chimneys. Hornless sash windows in exposed frames, those to ground and first storeys of 12 panes, those of the second storey of nine panes. Tudor label moulds above windows. Six-panel main door with thin Gothic glazing bars in the rectangular overlight; light porch at front, open at front and sides, with similar overlight at front.
The extension at left is of two storeys, with two similar but wider 12-pane windows above and garage doors below. Two similar windows to west return wall. At rear the elevation is irregular, under a slated lean-to roof commencing a little below the eaves of the main range; modern small-paned timber doors and casements.
Interior
Four-panel doors. Staircase with square balusters, close string, column at foot as newel and with square newels at landings. Rails swept on lower floors only.
Reason for designation
A house with a fine front elevation in the Regency tradition, listed also for group value with the church and Dinorben Arms as a key element in a village centre of conservation importance.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate and Steps to St Stephen's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St StephenReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Dinorben Arms Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Old School and SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.