Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hen - Deiliau
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwm Teigl, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, designated on 1 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1996
- Locality
- Cwm Teigl
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96949, -3.92081
- Cadw reference
- 16865
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid 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)
- 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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located approximately 1.5km NE of Ffestiniog near the railway and immediately to the W of Teiliau Bach farmhouse: accessed via a farm track leading E off the main road at Pont- y-Pandy. Raised up on a cement terrace behind a low rubble wall.
Exterior
Exterior: T-shaped C17 farmhouse with later additions; rubble construction with old, heavily-grouted slate roof. Single-storey with large attic dormer to R with C20 steel-framed window and hipped roof. 2 rubble chimneys with weather-coursing and capping. Off-centre entrance with stable door and flanking modern windows to early openings. Further (blocked) entrance to L with fragmentary C19 9-pane sash. To the L, a C19 carthouse extension with renewed slate roof; wide cart entrance and external stepped access to L gable leading to an upper boarded door. To the R, beyond the dormer, a further stable door; beyond, a byre extension with entrance as before and corrugated iron roof. Small rear range with squat end chimney with weather-coursing; external upper gable access to R as before.
Interior: 4-bay collar-and tie-beam upper cruck trusses to the primary block with the tie- beams cut at the ends; these pegged and chamfered and with 2 of the original collars surviving. Remains of C19 roof boarding; 3-bay modern roof to the byre section. Former ceiling now removed and the fireplaces blocked.
A C17 vernacular farmhouse retaining historic character and upper cruck roof.
Nearby in the register
- Teilia MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge c200m W of Pont y PandyTransportunder 1 mi
- Tryfal FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Railway Bridge East of A 470Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.