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Tan-y-Bwlch

Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Pwllheli, Gwynedd, designated on 28 July 1989.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Tan-y-Bwlch, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
28 July 1989
Community
Pwllheli
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.87551, -4.44524
Cadw reference
4601

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Near the SW end of the Golf Course, incorporated into the green. At right angles to the sea wall and reached along a track that leads SW off Talcymerau Road.

Early to mid C19.

2-storey, 2-window symmetrical whitewashed rubble front with grouted slate roof and eaves board; rectangular rubble end chimney stacks with weatercourses and cemented caps. All window openings have been filled in with louvred ventilators; central boarded door below advertisement panel. Extended to right with lower outbuilding not with double boarded doors under timber lintels. Similar rear with undulating eaves and 2 bricked up windows.

The 1st edition OS map shows a further range at right angles.

Included as a good example of a regional vernacular building.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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