Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn Ranges at Dolrhyd
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 23 November 1987
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74884, -3.90223
- Cadw reference
- 5131
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
To NW of Dolgellau; reached by a short drive. Dolrhyd House below to SW.
Exterior
L-plan group. The barn is late Cl7/early Cl8; the lower stable range is dated l763 and initialled W V Esq - built by William Vaughan. Both were restored in l980. Rubble walls, slate roof - old small slates to barn; chimney stack to left gable end of stables.
The barn has gable end parapets with quarter round moulded kneelers; dove boxes to right gable end above string course.
Slit ventilators, (blocked) all round. Tudor label over cambered arch former cart entrance with voussoirs, now with modern glazed infill; corresponding cart entrance to rear. Boarded door at right end.
The symmetrical 2-storey, 8-window stable range has central pediment containing a small pane circular window. Small lst floor windows; casement windows and half glazed doors to left with right flanking central twin former coach entrances with cambered voussoir heads and modern glazed infill.
Interior
Modernised interiors. The barn retains 7-bay roof with pegged A-frame trusses, curved struts and purlins.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Dolrhyd House and Gazebo or Music Room.
Nearby in the register
- Stables at DolrhydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dolrhyd HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gazebo or Music room at DolrhydGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- LlyndirDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.