Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Dolbenmaen
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, designated on 19 October 1971.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Dolbenmaen
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96398, -4.22462
- Cadw reference
- 4280
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
The farmhouse stands in the angle formed by the elbow in the old Tremadoc to Caernarfon road, and the recently built by-pass.
History
The house, the site of a princely court and centre of the demesne of Dolbenmaen, was one of only two in the district registered with 2 hearths in the 1662 return. It was probably rebuilt in the late C18 on the same site of long occupation, as indicated by the adjacent fine motte and moat.
Exterior
Built of roughly coursed rubble stonework, with a roof of old small slates, grouted up. The house form is a 4-window bay front with end chimney stacks, a lean-to on the left end (E), and a probable coeval rear wing on the right, also with a gable stack and itself extended by a cat-slide roof to the W. Recessed 12-pane sash windows noted in the former description boarded over at the time of inspection, July 1998, and a small fire window at the left end. Door at the rear, in the angle with the rear wing, has a projecting stone lintel of Caernarfonshire form. Weather coursing to the stacks.
The farm buildings lie to the W.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a caput house of some importance in the history of the district, of which some early fabric survives, in a substantial C18 vernacular farmhouse.
The motte is a Scheduled Ancient Monument No 11/2080/CN063(GWY).
Nearby in the register
- NE Range of Farm Buildings at Plas DolbenmaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Washhouse Building at Plas DolbenmaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- NW Range of Farm Buildings at Plas DolbenmaenAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dolbenmaen Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.