Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Graig Farmhouse
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Locality
- Rhiw Rhedyncochion
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.73557, -3.90984
- Cadw reference
- 5153
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 at the end of a farm track 200m from the junction with the road to Cregennan.
History
Later Cl7.
Exterior
l+ storey 2 window house, with hall/kitchen and two service rooms. Rubble masonry, whitewashed to front. Steeply pitched new slate roof, skylights to rear; plain eaves, raking gable parapets. Cl9 stone stack to right.
Cl9 gabled stone dormers, Victorian sash windows. Similar windows to ground floor, enlarged to left, stone lintel to right. Central doorway, modern door, stone lintel.
Modern rubble extension to right, corrugated lean-to roof.
2 windows to rear elevation.
Cl8 cowhouse (replacing earlier structure, possibly of timber), adjoins to left downslope of house. Coursed rubble masonry, steeply pitched slate roof, raking gable parapets. 3 doorways stepping downhill, stone lintels. Loft entry to rear off higher ground.
Through purlin collared trusses originally, now with modern ties, reinforcing etc. Originally fully lofted.
Interior
Stop chamfered ceiling beams and joists. Deep timber bressumer to broad fireplace. Cl9 central pillar. Door to stone stair to left.
Nearby in the register
- Cowhouse attached to Graig FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gelliwyd Fach FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables adjoining Gellilwyd Fach FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Gellilwyd Fach FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.