Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rootclamp 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
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 13 April 2005
- Locality
- Llanenddwyn
- Community
- Dyffryn Ardudwy
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.80118, -4.10165
- Cadw reference
- 84362
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 rootclamp lies to ESE of the house.
History
Probably C18 rootclamp.
Exterior
Built into rising ground to the E of the house at Dolgau and now flanked by rubble walling enclosing the garden; built of mortared rubble and boulders, with walls raking inwards to form a domed roof. Entry to the rootclamp faces the garden to the W, a single narrow doorway with large stone lintel; there is another long slab of stone above the doorway that may denote the position of an earlier roofline. To the rear of the entrance elevation the domed roof is grassed over and tapers back to an exposed rear wall with flat stone slab coping.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved rootclamp that forms a group with the adjacent farmhouse and brewhouse at Dolgau.
Nearby in the register
- Brewhouse at DolgauDomesticunder 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.