Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Morfa
Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trefor, Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, designated on 18 May 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 May 1999
- Locality
- Trefor
- Town
- Llanaelhaearn
- Community
- Llanaelhaearn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99619, -4.42966
- Cadw reference
- 21727
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 house stands to the N and apart from the village, and is reached by a footway from the village, and now by a road through the former quarry depot.
History
The house is probably of the early C18 and became a major farm on Lord Newborough's Glynlifon Estate, important as it controlled the tramway from Yr Eifl quarry to the quay at Trefor, for which a tonnage charge was levied. It appears on the 1840 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Built of stone rubble, whitewashed, with a old grouted slate roof, coped at the SW end. Two storeys, 3 bays, with a lean-to outbuilding on the rear (SW) side and a service range in line. The main front of the dwelling house is symmetrical between gable end stacks. Central, modern glazed door and 4-pane sash windows, similar smaller windows to the first floor immediately under the eaves. Similar small windows at the rear, including either side of the lean-to dairy. The lower service building in line to the NW has similar windows including a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window on the front, and a gable end stack.
Interior
The interior has been altered, but retains transverse ceiling beams with small ogee mouldings. Open fireplaces with ovens and fire beams, and a curved recess at the side of the fireplace in the extension for a boiler. Ceiled at collar level on the first floor, the roof rafters renewed in the earlier C20. The upper floor of the range in line, known as the lloft gleision, was long used for the composing and reading of poetry for the village of Trefor.
Reason for designation
Inlcuded as a large traditional farmhouse retaining its original layout and a strong vernacular character its its detail.
Nearby in the register
- Piggery at MorfaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llwyn-yr-aethnenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Maes-y-neuadd addoldy annibynwyrReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gwydir-mawrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.