Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penlan
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
- 52.74019, -3.88406
- Cadw reference
- 5096
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
End on to the street alongside Pendref Chapel.
History
Early-mid Cl9.
Exterior
l+ storey house. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched new slate roof. Plain eaves, close verges. Stone stacks, water tabling, slates pitched to form flues.
2 narrow later Cl9 gabled dormers to lst floor, rubble cheeks, close verges. Victorian sash windows. Similar windows below to ground floor, stone lintels. Further 2 light casement window to centre, doorway alongside. Stone lintels, plank door.
Right end elevation drops vertically down to River Arran. Small loft window to right of gable end.
Single storey coach house adjoins in line to left. Similar construction. Stone stack to left end, water tabling. Window set below eaves to right. Broad double doors to left with 6 pane toplight below eaves.
Reason for designation
Group value with listed items at lower end of South Street.
Nearby in the register
- Coach House at PenlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former WorkshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- Arran ViewDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former WorkshopCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.