Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ivy House
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74205, -3.88587
- Cadw reference
- 4973
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 from the street behind a railed forecourt.
History
Early Cl9.
Exterior
5 window 3 storey block of 3 window and 2 window houses. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched hipped slate roof oversailing eaves. Quarry slates to Ivy House. Central stone stack with lateral stacks to left and right rear. Water tabling.
5 Victorian gablets over 2nd floor windows. Sinuous bargeboards, wrought iron finials. Victorian sash windows, stone sills. Similar deeper windows to lst floor, stone lintels and sills. Blocked central doorway flanked by Victorian sash windows to house on left. Stone lintels.
Central doorway to Ivy House with corniced porch on slender Tuscan columns and pilasters. Rectangular fanlight over part-glazed panelled door.
Victorian sash window to left. Canted bay to right, flat corniced top, Victorian sashes, stone base.
Left end corner canted back to follow street line. Victorian sash to ground floor of left end elevation. 2 storey rear wing to Ivy House. Quarry slate roof, brick stack on stone base. Former stable parallel to rear. Rubble masonry. Gabled quarry slate roof, close verges. Loft doorway to gable end, stone lintel. Modern garage doors to ground floor. Stone piers to later outer gateway.
Interior
Interiors largely modernised. Contemporary staircase to house on left.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- House adjoining to left of Ivy houseDomesticunder 1 mi
- J.P.William Jones, BookmakersCommercialunder 1 mi
- MaesgwynCommercialunder 1 mi
- J.V.Morgan & SonCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.