Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen Brynbella
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
- 52.74045, -3.88678
- Cadw reference
- 5029
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
Gable end on to the road S of Bryntirion Terrace.
History
Early Cl8 with later alterations.
Exterior
l+ storey cottage with later range to left rear. Rubble masonry. Steeply pitched slate roofs, close verges, plain eaves. Late Cl9 rubble stacks with brick quoins, slate water tabling.
2 gabled dormers to loft, rubble cheeks, bargeboards. Pointed heads to 2álight casement windows. Small modern raking dormer to centre set wholly in roof. Doorway set off centre to right, upper panels glazed. 6 pane fixed light window to right. Victorian sash window to left. Stone lintels.
Right gable end angled back to follow line of road. 3 small iron skylights to roof on rear. Victorian sash under fixed toplight to left, 4 pane fixed light window to right, stone lintels.
Late Cl8 workshop range to rear. Rubble. Moderately pitched slate roof, close verges. Squat, projecting end stack with slated offsets and roofed projection to front. Former broad opening with timber lintel, fitted in with Cl9 four panelled door (upper panels glazed) and modern window. Possibly a smithy originally.
Nearby in the register
- Tan'r AlltDomesticunder 1 mi
- BrynbellaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers & Walls to entrance to Bryn MairDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon FairDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.