Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llwyn Onn Isaf Farmhouse
Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llwyn Onn, Barmouth, Gwynedd, designated on 28 August 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 August 1990
- Locality
- Llwyn Onn
- Community
- Barmouth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.73967, -4.03047
- Cadw reference
- 5226
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on a hillside sloping down towards the mouth of the
Afon Dwynant. Approximately 3km NE of Barmouth, approached from a mountain road which continues from Panorama road; Llwyn Onn Isaf is reached along a descending lane, gated to the top. The farm
History
A late C17
Exterior
Vernacular farmhouse of 2 storeys. Rubble construction with slate roof (currently being re-laid); end chimneys, that to L currently being rebuilt with weather coursing; gable parapets with kneelers. Broad 2-window front with central entrance and especially long quoin stones. Plinth partly of boulder type with slightly battered gable ends. The R windows are off-set; part-glazed door. The lintel is inscribed: `RW 1689 EH'. Small square stair light to upper L gable, and a window to R gable with, beneath a newly created entrance, formerly a 12-pane sash. 16-pane recessed sash to rear. Continuous with the L gable end is a lower, later rubble cross-range; at the junction a window opening, formerly a boarded door, below which there are steps to a cellar. Here a deeply-recessed boarded door. Drystone outshut at the far end.
The house was undergoing extensive restoration at the time of inspection (Autumn 1994).
Interior
L ground-floor room (former parlour) with stop-chamfered beamed ceiling; tongue stops. The end beam above a (plastered over) inglenook fireplace is carried on 3 rough stone corbels; later bread oven. The Hall (to R) has been sub-divided in the late C19 to create an entrance passage; evidence for a similar ceiling. Stopped-
chamfered main beams to upper floor; in the upper, front-facing room a wall cupboard with plain pegged oak doors and iron butterfly hinges. At the S gable end an original stone newel stair gives access from the first floor to the attic. 4-bay roof with original pegged collar trusses.
Reason for designation
A dated example of a larger vernacular farmhouse of the late C17.
Nearby in the register
- Stables/Cartshed at Llwyn BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llwyn Onn Bach FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Llwyn Onn BachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former Methodist Chapel and graveyard walls with attached former Minister's CottageReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.