Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Coed Cae-du Farmhouse
Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, designated on 30 November 1966.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 November 1966
- Locality
- Trawsfynydd
- Community
- Trawsfynydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92105, -3.92955
- Cadw reference
- 4847
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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the W side of the A470 to the N of the village of Trawsfynydd.
History
C16 farmhouse with later alterations. Later single storey wing to rear and single pitched roof addition to L (E).
The farmhouse was the centre of an extensive holding of close to 300 acres (121.5 hectares) at the time of the Tithe Apportionment of the parish, 1849; owned by Reverend Robert Lloyd Annwyl Roberts and occupied by Ellis Humphreys.
Exterior
Two storey farmhouse with single storey wing to rear and single pitched roof addition at L (E) gable. Built of local mortared stone (part of the E gable rendered), with large stones as quoins and lintels. The house and rear wing have slate roofs and gable stacks with dripstones and capping. The stack to L (E) gable of the house is a broad, shouldered, external stack, rendered. The roof of the single pitched roof addition at the E end is of profiled material.
The principal elevation faces NNW and is a 3-window range with the doorway offset to the R (W); the doorway is wide with an arched head of narrow radiating stones. Windows are timbers casements, first floor windows modern. The single pitched roof addition, probably a cowhouse, has the doorway offset to L and a pitching hole or loft opening to R.
Interior
The interior of the house was not seen but is recorded in the earlier listing description as having a screen passage of plank and muntin partitioning and the openings to rooms on either side have wood round-headed doorways. Staircase not original. Some exposed moulded ceiling beams.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C16 farmhouse that retains a good traditional character.
Nearby in the register
- Tomen y MurVicusunder 1 mi
- Castell Tomen y MurMotteunder 1 mi
- Roman Practice Camp 440m WSW of Braich-DduPractice Campunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Creigiau DuonAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.