Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Isfryn 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
- 52.74170, -3.88688
- Cadw reference
- 4990
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road behind a small courtyard shared with Plas Gwyn.
History
Early Cl8.
Exterior
l+ storey, 3 window house. Whitewashed roughcast on rubble masonry. Steeply pitched slate roof, plain eaves, close verges. Tall square stone stacks, moulded caps. Water tabling.
3 hipped dormers to top storey, roughcast rubble, close eaves. Victorian sash windows. 2 light casement window to ground floor left. Victorian sash to right. Central doorway. Late Cl9 closed, gabled trellis porch. Slate roof, plain bargeboards on consoles. Shallow rectangular fanlight over Cl9 four panel door, upper panels glazed.
Interior
Interior retains much worn and largely cased stop chamfered ceiling beams, plain joists. Plan form altered but narrower bay to centre opposite door suggests passage.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Isfryn CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- RhugDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas GwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bod AlawDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.