Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Salem House
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74153, -3.88905
- Cadw reference
- 4950
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
Set back from the road alongside Capel Salem.
History
cl800.
Exterior
3 storey, l window house, top storey added later in Cl9. Coursed rubble masonry. Much evidence of rebuilding. Moderately pitched slate roof, plain eaves, slated verges. Stone stack, water tabling. Similar stack over gabled rear wing. l6 pane sash window to 2nd floor set under eaves. Smaller Victorian sash to former doorway at lst floor, offset to right, deep stone lintel. Similar window below to ground floor, former doorway. Later? doorway to left. Stone lintel, 4 flush panelled door. l6 pane sash window to right gable end. Blocked doorway offset to right to lst floor on rear.
Appears to have been converted from part of the former schoolroom/coach house adjoining.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Chapel and former coach house adjoining.
Nearby in the register
- Former Schoolroom of Capel SalemReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Salem Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- GwelfrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Schoolroom at Salem Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.