Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brewhouse at Dolgau
Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanenddwyn, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd, designated on 13 April 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 April 2005
- Locality
- Llanenddwyn
- Community
- Dyffryn Ardudwy
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.80126, -4.10162
- Cadw reference
- 84340
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
Set back, along a private driveway, from the W side of the A496 c.1km N of Coed Ystumgwern. The brewhouse lies to ENE of the house.
History
Probably C18 brewhouse.
Exterior
Single storey brewhouse built into the rising ground to E of the house at Dolgau. Built of roughly coursed and mortared rubble masonry, including large stones as quoins and lintels. Roof of modern slates, laid to diminishing courses, and tiled ridge. There is a massive square chimney in the SW corner that has a dripcourse around the top of the stack. Entry to the brewhouse is through a single doorway in the W gable.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Included as an exceptionally well-preserved ancillary building which forms a group with the farmhouse at Dolgau.
Nearby in the register
- Rootclamp at DolgauAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- DolgauDomesticunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- 1 GlanrhosTerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.