Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Forden House
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
- 52.74272, -3.88480
- Cadw reference
- 5052
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 adjoining the Cross Keys PH.
History
cl800,
Exterior
2 storey, 3 window house; with weaving loft and loading bay (at left end) added in mid Cl9.
3 storey, 4 window building. Coursed rubble masonry. Gently pitched quarry slate roof, plain eaves, close verges. Stone stacks, water tabling.
Shallow windows set under eaves to 2nd floor. Modern glazing. Former loading door under gablet to extreme left, now window, concrete lintel. 3áVictorian sash windows to lst floor, stone lintels. Modern window to loading bay at left, concrete lintel. Formerly central doorway to ground floor. Slate hood on iron bracket, modern door. l6 pane sash window to right, similar to left but lower glazing bars reduced to one. Modern door to loading bay at extreme left, concrete lintel.
Reason for designation
A good example of a domestic building adapted for industrial use associated with the woollen industry once predominant in the town.
Nearby in the register
- Cellar Bar of the Torrent Walk Hotel, excluding main hotel building on Smithfield StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Cross Keys P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
- Sunday NewsagentsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Dily's MeredithDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.