Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1&2 Marianfa (also known as Marianfa)
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74264, -3.88727
- Cadw reference
- 5020
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
On the street line at the corner with the alley leading off Lombard Street up to the churchyard gates on Marian Road.
Exterior
3 storey, l window addition to an earlier block adjoining to left. Coursed rubble masonry, stressed quoins. Steeply pitched slate roof, close verges and eaves. Tall square stacks of roughly dressed blocks, moulded caps; water tabling. Similar to crossing at rear.
Victorian sash windows to front elevation, stone lintels.
Asymmetric gable end to alleyway. Low set 6 vertical pane sash window to 2nd floor with l2 pane sash to ground floor on left with right end set back in line with 4 storey rear wing, giving 2 window elevation. Stone lintels to 3rd and 2nd floor windows, fixed iron lights to left, 6 pane timber casements to right. Doorway to left at lst floor, stone landing step inset into angle of building, modern door. Victorian sash to right, similar to ground floor, Right hand corner of elevation polygonal.
Tier of 4 light casements to other side of rear wing.
A building representative of the woollen trade once dominant in the town.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items on Lombard Street and Marian Road.
Nearby in the register
- Llys y DelynCommercialunder 1 mi
- Llety ClydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glanwnion CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-FynwentDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.