Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gilfach
Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Cwm Pennant
- Town
- Dolbenmaen
- Community
- Dolbenmaen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99896, -4.19637
- Cadw reference
- 4287
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
The house stands on the W side of the Cwm Pennant, approaching the head of the valley.
History
The house was probably built as a farmhouse in the C18 or early C19, and may have been involved with the copper and slate extraction industries of the immedate area in the mid C19.
Exterior
Built of local rubble stonework with a slate roof. Two storeys and attic, 3 bays with a central door with plain overlight, the door replaced in the 1930's. Early C19 20-paned iron windows to the ground floor, the central four panes hinged, and 16-paned hornless sash windows to the upper floor, all windows with stone lintels. A blocked window occurs at the S end of the ground floor, and a small window in the gable lights the attic. Tall gable end stacks with drip ledges. The building is connected to an outbuilding on the left (S) end, modernised, with an iron waterwheel introduced to its gable end, and it has a further single storey cross range at the N end, also modernised.
Reason for designation
Included as being a good example of an C18 or early C19 farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Field CowhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement Above GilfachUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Gilfach Copper MineCopper Mineunder 1 mi
- Bryn-wernDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.