Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Cottage at Penamen House
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74578, -3.94221
- Cadw reference
- 5171
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately below the A493 to the SE of Penmaen house.
History
Cl8.
Exterior
Three window, l+ storey cottage. Rubble masonry, formerly whitewashed. Steeply pitched quarry slate roof laid to diminishing courses, plain eaves, raking gable parapets. Tall, square stone stacks, water tabling.
Three gabled dormers, timber gablets, rubble cheeks, laced valleys, close verges. 2 light casement windows. Central doorway, stone lintel, plank door. Flanking windows, stone lintels, vertically paned Victorian sash windows. Interior may be of interest.
Reason for designation
Good, unaltered example of the local Cl8 vernacular.
Nearby in the register
- Stables at Penamen HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach House at Penamen HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 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.