Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penychain Farmhouse
Llannor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 February 1999
- Locality
- Morfa Abererch
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llannor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.90073, -4.33959
- Cadw reference
- 21337
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
The farm is on Pen-ychain headland, c4 km E of Pwllheli and close to the W side of the holiday camp, and is reached by a farm road from the A497.
History
Penychain was built by the Glynllifon Estate in the mid C19 as a model farm.
Exterior
The house is built of rubble stonework with a slate roof. The main garden front faces N, and is of 3 bays, gable end to the road, with a rear wing alongside the road and extending to a shorter cross range on the S. At the centre of the N front, a margin-glazed door with 5-pane rectangular overlight, set under a flat canopied concrete porch supported on iron Corinthian columns. Four-pane sash windows to both floors. Gable end stacks. The rear wing is of 3 bays, with timber windows and a gable end stack, while the S range is hipped in, running W, also with a gable end stack. The garden is surrounded by a high stone wall completing the rectangle which includes the main yard and farm buildings. The side entry to the rear yard on the S side of the rear wing retains the original metal slat gate.
Reason for designation
Included as a good C19 farmhouse, and part of the well preserved Estate-designed farm group at Penychain.
Nearby in the register
- Farm Outbuilding at PenychainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Piggery at PenychainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- S Range of Farm Buildings at PenychainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- N Farm Range at PenychainAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.