Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen Brynbella
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
- 52.74045, -3.88678
- Cadw reference
- 5029
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
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.