Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dol-y-dderwin
Corris, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 December 1999
- Locality
- Pantperthog
- Town
- Machynlleth
- Community
- Corris
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.61057, -3.84611
- Cadw reference
- 22721
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 house stands back from the main road to Machynlleth, 1.609 km N of Pont ar Ddyfi.
History
Built probably in the late C18 or early C19, as a gentry farmhouse.
Exterior
Built of roughly coursed rubble and a slate roof with blue brick stacks on the gable ends. Three storeys, double pile plan, the main front, facing S, of 3 window bays with an asymmetrically placed boarded door, not aligned with upper windows. 9-pane sash window to the left of the door. 12-paned sashes in the right bay of the ground floor and three similar window on the first floor, some horned. 9-paned single sash windows to the attic floor. All openings have red sandstone lintels. The N front is also of 3 bays, with a central part-glazed door and overlight, and horned sash windows.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a good gentry farmhouse, in which Georgian-style detailing is superimposed on a more irregular vernacular plan, with marked asymmetry.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Felin y ffridd (partly in Corris Community)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Pont Felin-y-ffriddTransportunder 1 mi
- Turnpike CottageTransportunder 1 mi
- LliwdyDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.