Pentre Gwyddel

Cadw's description

Location

Located within the grounds of Silver Bay Caravan Park in the SE part of the parish, c1.3km ESE of the Church of St. Gwenfaen at Rhoscolyn.

History

Probably C17 with later alterations to windows, an added gabled porch to front and a single storey modern block added to right gable end. The building has been re-roofed in recent years and one of the beams was a re-set ship's timber carved with the name 'Espanol'.

Exterior

and Two-storey, 3-unit lobby entry plan with single storey wing to rear; small gabled porch added to front and later single storey extension added to right gable end. Built of rubble masonry, roughcast rendered, on boulder foundations. Modern slate roof with projecting, wood-bracketted eaves and stone copings; massive central ridge stack. Entrance elevation asymmetrically planned with doorway offset to the left end and 1-2 window plan of varied fenestration; windows are slightly recessed with slate sills. Left of the door is a lower storey mullioned window, with central light a 6-pane sliding sash, a similarly detailed window to the far right with a 6-pane sliding sash set under the eaves above; other windows are 4-pane sliding sashes of varying sizes.

Interior

Baffle-entry plan with massive central chimney; inglenook fireplace to right-hand room, with cupboard to right side of fire upstairs, and modern fireplace inserted in left-hand room. The building has been re-roofed in recent years but retains a single pegged and collared truss at the left end.

Reason for designation

Listed as a good example of a C17 farmhouse, refenestrated in the C19, but retaining its overall vernacular character and some original features.