Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Game Larder at Dolmlynllyn Hall Hotel
Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, designated on 13 February 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 February 1995
- Locality
- Ganllwyd
- Community
- Ganllwyd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.79816, -3.89276
- Cadw reference
- 15153
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately to the SW of Dolmelynllyn Hall Hotel; setagainst a hill to the W and overlooking formal terraced gardens.
History
Built by C.R. Williams Esq. c.1860 as a game larder toserve Dolmelynllyn Hall which he greatly extended after purchasingthe estate in 1859. Perhaps built to designs by his brother George Williams, architect of Liverpool.
Exterior
Single-storey rectangular building in Victorian rusticstyle. Snecked rubble construction with slate roof; deep verges supported on curved brackets. 2 round-arched entrances to N gable with projecting rubble impost blocks carrying later slatedcanopy; 2 small round-arched windows above. Further entrance to Eside with large flat projecting lintel and boarded door; 3 narrowarched windows to R with sash glazing; projecting cills and impostblocks. 2 plain windows and an upper, boarded loading bay to Sgable end. Plain interior.
Reason for designation
An interesting and unusual C19 service building.
Group value with Dolmelynllyn Hall Hotel.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmelynllyn Hall HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Adjoining Cottage including Forecourt Walls to W and adjoining outbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
- Goetre FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at GoetreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.