Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carthouse, Stable and Granary at Isallt-fawr
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Isallt, Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, designated on 30 March 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1999
- Locality
- Isallt
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97635, -4.18475
- Cadw reference
- 21548
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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Issalt-fawr lies at the wider S end of Cwm Pennant, on the lower slope of Moel Issalt. The carthouse building stands in front and at right angles to the main S front of the farmhouse.
History
The building was probably erected in the C18 or early C19..
Exterior
Built of irregular local rubble stonework, with a slate roof between coped gables. Three bays, with the carthouse at the S end, a simple rectangular opening, and stable at the N end, lit by a paned window. At the N end, facing the farmhouse, external stone stair of 6 slate steps leads up to a gable door to the former granary.
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered C18-C19 farm building of group value with the farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Isallt-fawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse at Isallt-fawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-graigDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.