Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tan Rhiw
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
- 52.74135, -3.88473
- Cadw reference
- 5048
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
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
- TawelfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- MarylandsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tay-y-GaderDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty MeurigDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.