Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stable to North of Rhydwen Farmhouse
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
- 52.73328, -3.90510
- Cadw reference
- 5152
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
Located in its own grounds alongside the road at the junction.
History
Early Cl9.
Exterior
2 storey, apsidal-ended estate built farmhouse. Coursed rubble masonry. Steeply pitched quarry slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Hipped over apsidal end, plain eaves, close verges to gabled rear elevation. Central stone stack, water tabling.
Large single storey rubble porch offset to left on entrance front. Gabled slate roof, close verges. Round arched doorway, stone voussoirs, arch ring. Plank door, plain fanlight. Blocked windows to porch sides.
Single tier of windows to right of porch, stone lintels, modern glazing. One window elevation to apsidal end. 6 pane sash window set under eaves to lst floor. Deeper, 3 light window to ground floor opening iron toplight to centre light; lead cames originally. Stone lintel.
Two small 2 light casements to gabled elevation, stone lintels.
Contemporary stable adjoins to N. Rubble masonry, steeply pitched quarry slate roofs laid to diminishing courses, plain eaves. 2 split doors to yard. Later extended northwards.
Later Cl9 additions to E, domestic accommodation over cartsheds. Later farmbuildings contemporary with this including hay barn and corn barn with stables.
Interior
Original staircase sweeps up following curve of apsidal end, turned newel. Original plank doors, strap and pintle hung.
Nearby in the register
- Rhydwen FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gelliwyd Fach FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Gellilwyd Fach FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hay Barn at Gellilwyd Fach FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.