Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former House and Byre at Dol-y-Mur Goch
Dolwyddelan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 February 1997
- Locality
- Brynmoel
- Community
- Dolwyddelan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.06217, -3.86573
- Cadw reference
- 18249
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Set into the slope of a rise, facing the railway some 500m SW of the Pont-y-Pant railway station; immediately to the SE of Dol-y-Mur Goch, with the lane running behind it. Accessed via a metalled lane running SW from the Pont-y-Pant.
Exterior
C18 single-storey house-and-byre; of whitened rubble on a part-boulder plinth. Squat chimney to L gable with plain capping and built-up louvre; slate roof. Modern boarded door to domestic section (L), with original small window openings flanking; 4 and 2-pane C19 sashes, boarded and fragmentary. To the R, the Byre entrance with chamfered lintel; currently doorless. Further boarded stable door to R gable.
Interior
2-bay domestic section with large inglenook fireplace to L with huge oak bressummer; poorly-scantled collar truss. 2-bay byre section as before, with purlins replaced.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an C18 house-and-byre.
Nearby in the register
- Bryn MwllachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Dairy-house at Bryn MwllachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bryn-moelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge and Causeway to Former Quarry at Chwarel-y-Fedw.Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.