Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
NE Range of Farm Buildings at Plas Dolbenmaen
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1999
- Locality
- Dolbenmaen
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96416, -4.22461
- Cadw reference
- 21551
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 group of farm buildings lie immediately W of Plas Dolbenmaen farmhouse. The NE range lies parallel to the old road, and end on to the NW range.
History
The house, the site of a princely court and centre of the demesne of Dolbenmaen, was one of only two in the district registered with 2 hearths in the 1662 return. It was probably rebuilt in the early C18 on the same site of long occupation, and the farm buildings were apparently modified in the early-mid C19.
Exterior
Built of local stone rubble, and originally with a slate roof. The NE range is end on to the NW range across the entrance driftway to the the farmyard on the W side of the house. A 2-bay building with stalling in the SE bay, perhaps originally intended as a stable, with an internal ladder to the grain or hay storage loft over. The building has an external stone stair at the NW gable end.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding the present condition, as part of the complete collection of farm buildings for a major farm, and ones which have not been modernised since the C19. Of group value with Plas Dolbenmaen farmhouse and other ranges, including the Scheduled motte.
Nearby in the register
- NW Range of Farm Buildings at Plas DolbenmaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas DolbenmaenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dolbenmaen Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Washhouse Building at Plas DolbenmaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.