Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Cross Foxes Inn
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.73376, -3.82818
- Cadw reference
- 5122
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
Prominently situated in open country at the Junction of the A487 to Machynlleth with the A470.
History
Dated l859.
Exterior
2+ storey, 3 window Inn with storeyed porch. Coursed, squared rubble masonry, steeply pitched slate roof, oversailing eaves; deep verges, exposed purlins, slated bargeboards. Stone stacks, rendered to right, slate water tabling.
Two gabled stone dormers, bargeboards, pendants. Modern window to left, two light casement to right. 2 light, small paned, casement windows to lst floor, deep slate lintels. Lozenge shaped slate tablet to apex of storeyed porch, inscribed RR 1859. Tripartite small paned casement windows to ground floor. 4 pane fixed light windows to sides of storeyed porch.
Later, timber outer porch on stone base, small paned glazing. Black-and-white gablet, bargeboards.
Low outhouse adjoins to left. Rubble masonry, slate roof with swept eaves. Lateral stone stack to front. Raking dormer over doorway.
Modern extension parallel to rear.
Nearby in the register
- Pont GwanasTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Gwanas (partly in Dolgellau Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Gwanas Farmhouse including attached Byre RangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Gwanas FawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.