Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Cart House at the Hywel Dda Hotel
Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hywel Dda, Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd, designated on 26 May 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 26 May 1995
- Locality
- Hywel Dda
- Community
- Brithdir and Llanfachreth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.80049, -3.74074
- Cadw reference
- 16045
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 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)
- 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)
- 1899 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the roadside, immediately to the NE of the Hywel Dda hotel.
History
Cart-house built to serve the Hywel Dda inn c1789 by Robert Hywel Vaughan of Nannau Esq, later the first baronet.
Exterior
Rectangular rubble building with slate roof. Wide, depressed-arched openings to S and E sides, the latter with an open square light above; modern horizontal boarding to openings. External stone-stepped and parapeted access to upper gable entrance to W.
Interior
Contemporary roughly-scantled ceiling beams.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Hywel Dda hotel.
Nearby in the register
- Hywel Dda HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Dolddeuli Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Y BwthynTransportunder 1 mi
- Barn to S of Hendre Fridd y MynachAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.