Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Washhouse Building at Plas Dolbenmaen
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in 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
- Dolbenmaen
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96394, -4.22497
- Cadw reference
- 21552
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 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The group of farm buildings lie immediately W of Plas Dolbenmaen, and form a yard with the motte in the W corner. The washhouse is adjacent to the house, and gable end on to the NE 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 date to that or a subsequent period.
Exterior
Built of local stone rubble, originally with a slate roof. The washhouse stands close to the house, and forms, with the NW and NE ranges of farm buildings the farmyard against the W side of the farmhouse. It has a door and window facing into the yard.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding its present condition, as an essential element in the fine group of farm buildings for a major farm of the district, and which have not been modernised since the C19. Of group value with the other farm buildings and the Scheduled motte.
Nearby in the register
- Dolbenmaen Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Plas DolbenmaenDomesticunder 1 mi
- NE Range of Farm Buildings at Plas DolbenmaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- NW Range of Farm Buildings at Plas DolbenmaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.