Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont-yr-Arran Cottage
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 27 May 1979.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 27 May 1979
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74269, -3.88415
- Cadw reference
- 4917
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 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back and slightly below modern street level between the bridge and Smithfield Square.
Exterior
l+ storey, 3 window cottage. Rubble masonry. Steeply pitched quarry slate roof, close verges and eaves. Stone stacks with water tabling, that to right set lengthways to ridge, that to left smaller.
3 later? Hipped stone dormers, close eaves. Shallow upper sash to 9 pane windows. Shallow upper sash to l6 pane ground floor windows flanking central doorway, stone lintels. 6 vertically proportioned panels to door. Doorway to centre of rear elevation, window to left, stone lintels. 3 modern skylights to roof.
Stop chamfered transverse ceiling beams, end beams set against wall on corbels. Early Cl9 stair. Massive timber bressumer over fireplace. Through purlin collared trusses.
Demolished rear wing said to have contained upper cruck and early Cl8 stair.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Arran RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- BrethynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lloyd, Herbert & Jones, Estate AgentsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Arran RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.