Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Coach House at Penamen House
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
- 52.74619, -3.94287
- Cadw reference
- 5169
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
Sited alongside the drive some 30m E of the house.
History
Late Cl9.
Exterior
T shaped range. 2 storey. Squared, coursed rubble masonry. Gently pitched slate roof, plain eaves, deep slated verges, exposed purlins. Ornamental vent to right of centre.
Windows to extreme right and left under eaves, cross framed to left, 2 light to right. 2 broad coach house entries to left, deep stone lintels, plank doors. Split stable door to extreme right. 2 pane rectangular fanlight.
Loft doorway on left in left end gable, stone lintel, rubble staircase.
Two windows to ground floor of right gable end, stone lintels, modern 4 pane frames.
Cross range to rear, upper part formerly open hayloft with rubble piers; ground floor converted to garaging.
Stable retains good late Cl9 horse stalls. Curved stall-tops, iron rails, ball finials to end posts.
Reason for designation
Group value with house.
Nearby in the register
- Stables at Penamen HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penamen HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Cottage at Penamen HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penamen Ucha Farm, Model FarmyardAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.