Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Betws Garmon, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 January 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Betws Garmon
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.09697, -4.19616
- Cadw reference
- 21284
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located about 0.5 km north-west of Betws Garmon in a lowland position in front of dense coniferous woodland on rising ground off a track running westwards from the A 4085.
History
Original 3-bay early C19 farmhouse, extended by a wide single bay to the left c1850 at which time the present windows were installed.
Exterior
Farmhouse. Limewashed uncoursed rubblestone, rendered to rear and left gable end. 2 storeys. Original 3-bay house, extended to the left by a wide single bay (see straight joint). Victorian 4-pane sashes with slate cills to left and right of originally central entrance with plain boarded door; roundel above with limewashed brick surround and traces of a painted fictive window; Victorian sashes, also with slate cills, on both floors of addition. Rendered integral end stacks, larger to right, and former end stack (now ridge stack) at junction between the 2 phases of the house. 2-storey lean-to (perhaps a stable) to right gable end has roundel above boarded door.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial early C19 farmhouse, built in the regional vernacular tradition and prominently sited in the landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Cae-ysguborDomesticunder 1 mi
- Detached Kitchen / Washhouse at Cae-ysguborDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont y BetwsTransportunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse to South-east of Llwyn-bedwAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.