Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penbryn Mawr
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penygroes, Caernarfon, Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 July 2000
- Locality
- Penygroes
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanllyfni
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.06004, -4.29981
- Cadw reference
- 23715
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
Set at the end of a track in pasture fields approximately 45m from Ffordd Clynnog. A menhir stands a little to the south-east of the house.
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the farmhouse was built in the early C19.
Exterior
Of roughly coursed rubblestone, roughcast to gable ends; slate roof with coped verges and integral end stacks. 2 storeys. 3-window front; 4-paned sashes and central entrance.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantially unaltered early C19 lowland farmhouse, within the vernacular tradition, which with the adjacent barn/stable range forms part of an intact farmhouse group.
Nearby in the register
- Penbryn Mawr standing stoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Barn/stable at Penbryn MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-bryn-bachDomesticunder 1 mi
- The NurseryGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.