Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tan-y-Bryn
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
- 52.74192, -3.88806
- Cadw reference
- 5005
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 back from the road behind a walled sloping garden overlooking Y Lawnt, alongside path linking with Cader Road.
History
cl840.
Exterior
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
- Erw-WenDomesticunder 1 mi
- House Adjoining Erw-Wen to leftDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Y LawntDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.