Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2005
- Date of amendment
- 11 March 2025
- Locality
- Vale of Ffestiniog
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95348, -3.98301
- Cadw reference
- 84005
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
Slightly set back from the N side of the narrow country road that runs along the N side of the Vale of Ffestiniog between the A487(T) and the B4391; ENE of Maentwrog.
History
Early to mid C19 cottage, built on part of Glan yr afon, recorded in the tithe apportionment of the parish, 1840, as being owned by Richard Richards Humphreys Esq, Lord Tottenham and occupied by Thomas Lloyd, a farmer of close to 80 acres. Extended by the addition of a single storey wing to L (W) gable in C20 and appeared to under restoration at the time of the survey (July 2003).
Exterior
Two storey farmhouse, built of mortared rubble masonry with large stones as quoins and lintels. Slate roof with slightly advanced eaves and slate hung verges; rectangular stone stack with capping at R (E) gable and external square stack to L. The principal elevation faces the road and river valley to S, with central boarded door and flanking 2-light timber casement windows. The wing to L probably replaces an earlier service wing and has smooth rendered elevations and modern timber casement windows.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 farmhouse that retains traditional character and forms a group with the adjacent cottage orné at Bryn y Ddwyryd.
Nearby in the register
- Bryn y DdwyrydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bron Turnor MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coed-y-BleiddiauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dduallt (also known as Plas y Dduallt)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.