Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llys Awel
Waunfawr, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pentre Bryn yr Eithin, Caernarfon, Waunfawr, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 July 1999
- Locality
- Pentre Bryn yr Eithin
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Waunfawr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11231, -4.20022
- Cadw reference
- 22048
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 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated just below the road with a rubble-walled footpath running in front of the building.
History
Not shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, the house is likely to have been built c1850 as a small farmhouse or larger than average smallholder's cottage.
Exterior
Main part of one storey and attic 2-room plan with central passage-way and end stacks; single-storey range attached to left gable end. Irregularly coursed rubblestone, rendered to front wall of main part, limewashed to single-storey section; slate roofs, graded to single-storey section. Main part has central gabled porch with narrow windows to sides and inner C20 half-glazed door; 4-paned sashes to either side and of reduced proportions to gabled eaves dormers directly above; integral end stacks. Single-storey section has 2 casement windows and tall integral end stack to left.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered mid-C19 small farmhouse or large smallholder's cottage, built in the local vernacular tradition and retaining its original overall form and much of its detailing.
Nearby in the register
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Cae GlasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pont Cyrnant (partly in Betws Garmon community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pont Cyrnant (partly in Waunfawr Community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.