Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Coach House and Stable Block at Tan Llan
Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, designated on 20 July 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 July 1995
- Locality
- Llanelltyd
- Community
- Llanelltyd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.75873, -3.89996
- Cadw reference
- 16147
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 NE of Tan Llan.
Exterior
Earlier C18 stable block, built c. 1728 to serve Tan Llan; altered late C19 and extended to provide a coach house. Of small hand-made bricks on a rubble plinth with slate roof. Central entrance to the stable section with boarded door and expressed timber lintel; similar flanking windows with 4-panecasements. Above the door, a wooden shuttered window; here the brick-work is disturbed. To the R a C19 rubble lean-to with boarded door and brick cambered head. Adjoining to the L, thelater rubble coach house; modern rubble infill with tripartite windows and boarding above. Large C19 slate-hung, hipped dormerto roof with 12-pane sash window; plain C19 chimney to L gable. Further, small gabled extension set-back to L with boarded doorand 3-light C20 window. To the rear, stone stepped access toupper C19 dormer entrance with boarded door; dormer window as before to L. The rear is set against a steep bank and is of rubble.
Interior
3-bay stable plus one bay coach house section; queen post roof trusses.
Reason for designation
Listed as an extremely unusual and early instance of brick building in Merioneth.
Group value with Tan Llan.
Nearby in the register
- Tan LlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St Illtyd including churchyard walls and gatepiersReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- BrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- TynllanDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.