Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tawelfa
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
- 52.74140, -3.88481
- Cadw reference
- 5047
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 right angles to the front of Tan y Gader which faces down Meyrick Street.
History
cl800 or earlier.
Exterior
Asymmetric pair of 3 storey, 2 window houses. Rubble masonry. Gently ptiched quarry slate roof, plaine aves close verges. Stone stacks, smaller to right, further lateral stack to rear of Tan Rhiw, water tabling.
2nd floor windows raised into 4 gablets in later Cl9. Stone cheeks, plain bargeboards. Painted upper sash to Victorian sash windows. 4 Victorian sashes to lst floor, stone lintels. Similar windows to left on each house, (cellar opening below to Tawelfa). Doorways to right. 4 panel doors, upper portion glazed, slate hoods over, carried on slender iron piers to Tawelfa, brackets to Tan Rhiw. Small buttery windows to extreme left and right, stone lintels. 2 pane casement to Tawelfa, 4 pane 2 light casement to Tan Rhiw.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Tan RhiwDomesticunder 1 mi
- MarylandsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty MeurigDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tay-y-GaderDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.