Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Farmhouse
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 27 May 1949
- Locality
- Penybryn
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23044, -4.11320
- Cadw reference
- 4096
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the terrace above the sunken section of the old Holyhead road cutting and reached by the road by the Golf Club. Penybryn House detached to left.
History
Late C18
Exterior
Symmetrical. 5-bay, 2-storey scribed cement render front with attics to advanced gabled bays at either end. Slate roof with wide eaves to gables and brick chimney stacks. 12-pane sash windows, one dummy to centre over 6-panel door with oval traceried fanlight; arched headed sash windows to attic and modern windows in inner return walls of gabled bays. Rubble boundary walls attached to either end with boarded doors; to left bordering with Penybryn House. Small pane sash windows at rear including 2 arched headed window to centre and sliding sash on right hand cross range.
Late Georgian iron railings dating from the construction of the old Holyhead road (ca 1817) curve around from Penybryn Bridge and continue along the terrace wall to the left.
Interior
Modernised interior in conversion to two houses.
Reason for designation
Group value with Penybryn House, Penybryn Bridge, the old road cutting and the Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel.
Nearby in the register
- Revetment Walls and RailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penybryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-y Bryn LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.