Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Eithinog-uchaf
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
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
- 53.05224, -4.30753
- Cadw reference
- 23717
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
Situated in lowland pasture fields at the end of a farm track off the south-west side of Ffordd Clynnog (Clynnog Road).
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the farmhouse appears to have been built c1825 as suggested by the date on the overmantel to the fireplace in the left ground-floor room.
Exterior
Of roughly coursed rubblestone, roughcast to right gable end; slate roof with integral end stacks and coped verges to right. 2 storeys. Double-pile plan. 3-window front; 4-paned sashes, of reduced proportions to first floor, ground-floor windows replaced by late C20 top-hung casements. Central entrance through gabled porch, which has 4-paned sashes to side walls and inner C20 4-panel door.
Interior
Left ground-floor room has slate lintel to altered fireplace with the inscription "H.M. Williams/ AD1825" to incised keystone and incised medallion decoration. Central staircase with stick balusters and turned newel may be a later C19 alteration.
Reason for designation
Included as a securely dated example of a modest early C19 lowland farmhouse, built within the vernacular tradition.
Nearby in the register
- Former cottage at Eithinog-uchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse/granary and pigsties at Eithinog-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse at Eithinog-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn and stables at Eithinog-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.