Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penbryn House
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 February 1952
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74179, -3.88859
- Cadw reference
- 5006
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 Y Lawnt behind a sloping terraced garden with rear to Cader Road.
History
l808 with later additions.
Exterior
Pair of 3 window, 3 storey houses with l window extension to W end. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roofs, cavetto eaves cornices, close verges. Stone stacks, water tabling.
Later Cl9 gablets over outer windows to top storey, bargeboards. l2 pane sashes. Dummy window set under eaves to centre. Glazing bars painted on to Penbryn Croft. l2 pane sashes to lst floor, stone lintels and sills, dummy to centre. Similar fenestration to ground floor with central doorway. Modern doors, lattice rectangular fanlight to Penbryn House. Slate tablets over doorways with lettering: "Built by T G E l808" to Penbryn croft and "Built by R O J l808" to Penbryn House.
3 storey, l window near contemporary exten
Nearby in the register
- Penbryn CroftDomesticunder 1 mi
- Schoolroom at Salem Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Salem Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Erw-WenDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.