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Tan-y-Bryn

Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Tan-y-Bryn, 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
Community
Dolgellau
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.74192, -3.88806
Cadw reference
5005

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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)
  • 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)

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Cadw's description

Set back from the road behind a walled sloping garden overlooking Y Lawnt, alongside path linking with Cader Road.

cl840.

2 storey, 3 window house incorporating earlier Cl9, 3 storey building set back to right under same roofline. Coursed rubble masonry, more regular to later house. Gently pitched modern slate roof, bargeboards. Low stone stacks, slate water tabling.
l6 pane sash windows to lst floor, stone lintels under eaves. Similar, proportionally larger windows to ground floor, deep stone lintels. Central doorway, rectangular fanlight, sidebar glazing; tall arched panels to door.

l2 pane sash window to lst floor of left end elevation. 2 light casement to ground floor.

2 shallow Victorian sashes set under eaves to earlier building. Single l2 pane sash to lst floor and l6 pane sash offset to right on ground floor, stone lintels. Lean-to brick privy to left set into angle with later house.

Rubble boundary wall around garden and alongside path up to Cader Road.

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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