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Fron Arran

Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Fron Arran, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
19 June 1990
Community
Dolgellau
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.73957, -3.88514
Cadw reference
5080

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David 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)

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Cadw's description

Set back from the road in its own grounds and reached via drive from where South Street and the new link road meet.

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3 storey, 3 window house with 2 storey l window service wing to left. Coursed rubble masonry, ashlared pointing, left gable end pebbledashed. Moderately pitched slate roof, outshot to rear, cavetto eaves cornice, later bargeboards. Pebbledashed stone stacks.
3 gablets over 2nd floor windows, bargeboards, finials. 12 pane sash windows, cavetto lintels. 12 pane sashes to lst floor, stone lintels. Canted bay windows to ground floor, hipped slate roofs, narrow sidelights, 12 pane front sashes. Flat hood over central doorway, iron brackets. Lattice glazed rectangular fanlight over door of 4 moulded fielded panels.
Twelve and l5 pane sash windows to right gable end, door to outshot, stone lintels. Narrow l8 pane stair window to rear.

Service wing adjoins to left. Coursed rubble masonry, ashlared pointing. Moderately pitched quarry slate roof, plain eaves, close verges. Projecting chimneybreast to left end, slated offsets, stone stack, water tabling. 12 pane sash window set under eaves to lst floor. l6 pane sash to ground floor, stone lintel.

Contemporary staircase, scrolled newel, handrail swept up to half landing, moulded tread ends. Buffet recess, 6 panelled doors, moulded architraves, some panelled shutters.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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