Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dolwar-fach (or Dolwar-fechan)
Llanfihangel, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1953
- Locality
- Dolwar
- Town
- Welshpool
- Community
- Llanfihangel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.71998, -3.38806
- Cadw reference
- 7630
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the higher end of a farmyard about 2 km north of Dolanog.
History
Dolwar Fach was the home of the Welsh hymnologist Ann Griffiths (1776-1805). This successor house remains a place of pilgrimage for Welsh Methodists, including many from U.S.A.; the parlour is devoted to memorabilia of Ann Griffiths.
The farm was recorded in 1841 as a tenancy on the Wynnstay estate. The house of Ann Griffiths' time stood a few metres away from the position of the present house. The present house is a C19 stone farmhouse and still forms a compact group with its farm outbuilding ranges.
Exterior
A two-storey, two-window stone farmhouse of symmetrical design with stone front porch. The masonry is in axe-dressed informally coursed local stone. Slate roof with stone end-chimneys. Boarded main door. Modern replaced windows throughout, those at front retaining the original window proportions. The lower windows at front have stone arches. Brick rear extensions, part flat roofed.
Interior
Porch opens directly to main room at right; parlour at left.
Reason for designation
A C19 stone farmhouse in proximity to earlier farmyard ranges; listed especially for its association with Ann Griffiths, the noted late C18 Welsh revival hymnologist.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding to West of Farmyard, Dolwar-fachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to South of Farmyard, Dolwar-fachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dolwar HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Allt Dolanog HillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.