Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty Newydd Farmhouse
Arthog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pont Dyffrydan, Arthog, Gwynedd, designated on 1 February 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1995
- Locality
- Pont Dyffrydan
- Community
- Arthog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.71962, -3.93181
- Cadw reference
- 15615
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
Located 150m NW of Pont Dyffrydan off the Fford Ddu; accessed viaa farm track leading from the car park.
Exterior
Third-quarter C17 farmhouse of one-and-a-half storeys;3 window front. Rubble construction with medium-pitched slate roof, close verges and eaves. Rendered rubble stack to L. 3 gabled rubble dormers to N (front) elevation and 3 to S. Leaded modern casement windows to N elevation. Central entrance with stone lintel. Small C19 pitched rubble and slate porch with leaded windows as before to sides.
Large 1965 modern extension to W excluded.
Interior
Parlour to L with blocked fireplace; plain run-off stopped beamed ceiling and contemporary post-and-panel screen (partly plastered over). The former hall (to L) has a large inglenook fireplace with vaast wide chamfered bressummer; beamed ceiling as before wiyth large transverse beam. Small visible section of post-and-panel screen. To the L of the fireplace a niche, the panelled door to which is in the possesion of the owner. Contempoary wooden main doorcase within porch with crude rolled ends and stopped-chamfered lintel; 3 original bolt houses. 3-bay upper cruck roof with pegged collars and through purlins; mostly original rafters.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C17 vernacular farmhouse retaining several good internal features.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Ty-NantTransportunder 1 mi
- Water Wheel at DyffrydanIndustrialunder 1 mi
- DyffrydanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tyddyn-y-Coed CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.