Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stables adjoining Gellilwyd Fach 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
- 52.73312, -3.90969
- Cadw reference
- 5156
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 on rising ground overlooking the road reached by a farm track some 500m from the junction with the road to Cregennan.
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. Polygonal stone central stack set on base, ornamental cap, water tabling.
Entrance front to E. 3 windows set under eaves to lst floor. Outer ones blocked, 2 light casement to centre. Gabled stone porch, close verges. Doorway offset to left, stone lintel; part glazed door. Victorian sash to left modern sash to right, stone lintels. One window elevation to apsidal right end. Victorian sash window set under eaves to lst floor. Similar deeper window to ground floor, stone lintel. Modern window to left gable end, stone lintel. Modern privy below.
Contemporary stable adjoins to W. Rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roof, oversailing eaves. Gabled dormer over loft doorway, bargeboards, slate hung cheeks, plank door. Stable door below, stone lintel split door. 4 pane fixed light window to right. Further split door to extreme right. Lean-to stone porch, slate roof to left adjoining house, extended in concrete block. Victorian sash windows below eaves and to ground floor at rear, stone lintels. Quarry slates to rear roof pitch. W end of range largely modernised.
Nearby in the register
- Hay Barn at Gellilwyd Fach FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Gellilwyd Fach FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gelliwyd Fach FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse attached to Graig FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.