Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatehouse at Rhiwaedog
Llangywer, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 October 1966
- Locality
- Rhos-y-gwaliau
- Community
- Llangywer
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.90063, -3.56677
- Cadw reference
- 4665
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
History
C17 gatehouse. Probably the last of the Merionydd series of gatehouses to be built as status symbols for the local gentry.
Exterior
Two storey gatehouse built of well coursed masonry, slate roof with advanced eaves and verges and tall stack at L (E) gable with dripstones and capping. Symmetrically planned with the principal elevation facing N, a range of 3 bays, with broad central gable. The central doorway is raised by 3 steps and has a 4-centred head of radiating voussoirs, there are flanking windows and a window in the gable above; all windows are modern 3 light timber casements, similar ground floor windows in each gable return.
Interior
The interior could not be inspected at the time of the survey (June 2004) but is recorded in the previous listing description of 1966 as having a roof of unusual construction with tie beams and wind braces.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C17 gatehouse that forms a group with the adjacent gentry house at Plas Rhiwaedog. The last of a series of Merionydd gatehouses to be built as status symbols for the local gentry.
Nearby in the register
- Plas RhiwaedogDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhiwaedog farmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Agricultural range at Rhiwaedog FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Rhiwaedog FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.