Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Graig Fach
Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Barmouth, Gwynedd, designated on 31 January 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1995
- Community
- Barmouth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.72008, -4.05001
- Cadw reference
- 15452
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 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back slightly behind a metalled forecourt with an adjacent petrol station to the R.
History
A terrace of 2 early C19 houses expressed as reflected units.
Exterior
Of coursed, rough-dressed stone with shallow-pitched modern slate roof. Plain eaves. Plain projecting end chimneys with weather coursing.
3 storeys, each with one window elevation. Recessed entrances with contemporary wooden doors and narrow diamond-latticed top-lights. Contemporary, slightly-recessed sash windows with projecting stone cills: those to first floors and ground floor R of 16 panes; those tosecond floor of 12. The left-hand house has a plain late C19 sash toits ground floor.
Interior
Largely unaltered this century; dog-leg stairs in both houses and slate floors to ground floor rooms. Plain simply moulded wooden fireplaces with later C19 ranges; 4-panelled Victorian doors.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of largely unaltered houses in a prominent location.
Nearby in the register
- Graig FachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Anchor CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Quay CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Wash-House or Shop advanced to the R of Quay CottageCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.