Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffridd
Mawddwy, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberangell, Machynlleth, Mawddwy, Gwynedd, designated on 4 November 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 November 1999
- Locality
- Aberangell
- Town
- Machynlleth
- Community
- Mawddwy
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.68702, -3.73927
- Cadw reference
- 22616
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 150 Dinas-Mawddwy (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The small dwelling is uphill sited on the S flank of Foel-y-fridd, some 80m above the valley bottom road along the Afon Angell.
History
The building was probably erected in the later C18 as a permanent dwelling on the encroachment into the ffridd.
Exterior
The house is built of local rubble stonework, colourwashed in both red and white at various times, and grouted slate roof with rooflights. Single storey, living room, inner room, and 2-bay cowhouse in line set into the slope. The living room has a large inglenook stack in the gable end with a small fire window in the gable, and an added scullery at the back, W side. Entrance, a boarded door in a chamfered frame opening to the lobby beside the stack. Two-light 6-paned casement wood windows, the smaller window to the inner room having a drip ledge over. Remains of a corrugated iron bathroom in the front angle of the scullery. Entrance to the cowhouse is against the upper wall of the house. A single window each side.
Interior
Chamfered cross ceiling beam with swept-out stops. Fire beam is boxed in behind a mantle shelf.
Reason for designation
Included as a good and well preserved small marginal land farmhouse, built on traditional lines.
Nearby in the register
- Field barn below FfriddAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dol YsgallogNo class recorded2 mi
- Farm building at LlwydiarthAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
- LlwydiarthDomestic2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.