Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brynhyfryd
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74142, -3.89104
- Cadw reference
- 4954
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 below the road in its own gardens and overlooking the Towyn Road to the N.
History
cl840 for William Evans.
Exterior
Rectangular block with service wing to S. 2ástorey, 3 window front. Coursed rubble masonry with scribed pointing. Ashlar plinth. Hipped slate roofs, deep boarded eaves. Stone stacks, 2 in line to S side l to centre of N side.
l2 pane sash windows to lst floor, stone lintels and sills. Continuous verandah over ground floor. Slate roof carried on slender cast iron fluted columns, stone bases. Classical pelmet to eaves. Stouter fluted columns of wood flank entrance with pilasters flanking doorway. Small pane and sidebar glazing to double doors. Design reflected in flanking windows. Deep sash windows, sills rest on plinth. Broad central vertical glazing bar, sidebars, small panes.
Lower 2 storey, l window service range advanced gable end on to left. Coursed rubble masonry, ashlar plinth. Half hipped slate roof, bargeboards, deep boarded eaves. l2 pane sash window to lst floor, stone lintel and sill. Former ground floor window as main house, now part blocked with modern window.
2 window N elevation, left hand bay advanced. Fenestration as front, continuous verandah.
Rear or garden elevation. Advanced bay to right with further advanced lower service wing to extreme right. Continuous verandah. 2 narrow 8 pane sash windows to lst floor left, l2 pane sash to right. Ground floor window to left as front. Broad tripartite bow window to right. Broad central vertical glazing bar to central sash, small panes, sidebars. Lower 2-storey service wing to extreme right, l2 pane sash window over 6 pane sash with sidebars and broad central glazing bar. Stone lintels and sills.
N elevation of service wing. 2 storey 3 window. Shallow upper sashes to 9ápane lst floor windows set under eaves, that to right a dummy. Stone sills. Broad 24 pane sash to ground floor left, stone sill. 6 flush panel door to centre, lattice glazed rectangular fanlight Modern doorway to right, plain fanlight. Unsympathetic modern canopy.
Interior
Broad hall arch.Contemporary staircase. Room on W with bow window retains contemporary chimneypiece and broad arched recess. Moulded cornices to main rooms. 6 panel doors, moulded architraves, panelled window shutter and splays.
Contemporary terraced garden to N and rear. Tall rubble boundary walls. Massive stone slab gateposts to main entrance on Cregennan Road.
Reason for designation
A good example of a gentleman's residence of the l840s.
Nearby in the register
- Pen-y-Bryn TollhouseTransportunder 1 mi
- GwelfrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Salem HouseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Schoolroom of Capel SalemReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.