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Coed-y-Fronallt

Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Fronallt, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Coed-y-Fronallt, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
19 June 1990
Locality
Fronallt
Community
Dolgellau
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.74662, -3.88204
Cadw reference
4956

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

Set behind its garden at the end of the lane below a little valley.

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Gothic. 2 storey, 3 window house. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roof, raking gable copings, obelisks.

3 pointed lights with transoms to lst floor windows, outer ones under gables. Stone lintels and sills. Similar to ground floor flanking an open stone gabled porch on square pillars. Raking gable copings, obelisk finial. Rectangular fanlight over door of 2 pointed glazed upper panels.

Casement windows to side and rear elevations.

Outhouse to rear. Whitewashed rubble walls. Moderately pitched slate roof, exposed rafters at eaves. Windows with unglazed fixed lights flank central doorway. Timber lintels, stone sills.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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