Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhos-farch
Pennal, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 May 2000
- Locality
- Pennal
- Town
- Machynlleth
- Community
- Pennal
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.59383, -3.92806
- Cadw reference
- 23315
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 farmhouse is located in undulating country, 1km NW of the centre of the village, and is reached from a farm road off the minor road to Pennal-isaf.
History
Built probably in the early C19 as an upgrading of a previous house on the same site.
Exterior
Built of stone and limewashed, with a slate roof. Two storey, 3 bays. Central 4-panelled door within a C20 lean-to porch, and 12-pane unhorned sash windows, 3 to the upper floor, and to either side of the front door, that on the left 16-paned. Gable end brick stacks, the left gable pebbledashed. Lean-to on the right end gable built of rubble with quartz, and an old slate roof. To the rear, a continuous outshut, raised later to 2 storeys and provided with 3 gabled dormers, all margin-glazed.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C19 farmhouse built in the Georgian tradition, reflecting the increased prosperity of farming at that time.
Nearby in the register
- Esgair WeddanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel Annibynwyr Carmel, including front railed forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Addoldy MC Pennal, including front yard and railings (Methodist Chapel)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pont PennalTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.