Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bier House at Capel Rehoboth
Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Harlech, Gwynedd, designated on 21 June 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 21 June 2001
- Locality
- Harlech
- Community
- Harlech
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85973, -4.10528
- Cadw reference
- 25509
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 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Within the chapel's graveyard a short distance to the E of the chapel.
History
Bier house built to serve the adjacent Scotch Baptist Rehoboth chapel, erected in 1820, and probably contemporary with it.
Exterior
Small rectangular bierhouse of local rubble construction with roughly-kneelered rubble gable parapets; old slate roof with tiled ridge. Entrance to the centre on the chapel-facing side, with slate lintel; rectangular upper light to the L gable end.
Interior
Plain interior with single-bay roof; replaced purlins.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 bier house built to serve the adjacent Scotch Baptist chapel, retaining good original external character.
Group value with Rehoboth chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Capel RehobothReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bryn TirionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty'r FelinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gweithdy SaerCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.