The Old Farmhouse, Bangor, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2305 / 53°13'49"N

Longitude: -4.1132 / 4°6'47"W

OS Eastings: 259041

OS Northings: 372463

OS Grid: SH590724

Mapcode National: GBR 5Q.0HBF

Mapcode Global: WH547.S2J9

Plus Code: 9C5Q6VJP+5P

Entry Name: The Old Farmhouse

Listing Date: 27 May 1949

Last Amended: 2 August 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4096

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004096

Location: Situated on the terrace above the sunken section of the old Holyhead road cutting and reached by the road by the Golf Club. Penybryn House detached to left.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Bangor

Locality: Penybryn

Built-Up Area: Bangor

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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History

Late C18

Exterior

Symmetrical. 5-bay, 2-storey scribed cement render front with attics to advanced gabled bays at either end. Slate roof with wide eaves to gables and brick chimney stacks. 12-pane sash windows, one dummy to centre over 6-panel door with oval traceried fanlight; arched headed sash windows to attic and modern windows in inner return walls of gabled bays. Rubble boundary walls attached to either end with boarded doors; to left bordering with Penybryn House. Small pane sash windows at rear including 2 arched headed window to centre and sliding sash on right hand cross range.

Late Georgian iron railings dating from the construction of the old Holyhead road (ca 1817) curve around from Penybryn Bridge and continue along the terrace wall to the left.

Interior

Modernised interior in conversion to two houses.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with Penybryn House, Penybryn Bridge, the old road cutting and the Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Revetment Walls and Railings
Short sunken section of the former London to Holyhead Turnpike road cut through the hillside. Reached off the Llandegai Road opposite the road to Port Penrhyn and off the High Street beside Tan y Coe
II Penybryn House
Situated on a terrace above the sunken section of the old Holyhead road and reached by the lane up to the Golf Club; approached from the right past The Old Farmhouse
II Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel
At the side of the lane leading up to the Golf Club; retained as a feature in the Penybryn gardens.
II Tan-y Bryn Lodge
Set into the hillside at the base of the drive to Tan-y-Bryn house; at a splayed angle to the main road.
II Penrhyn Bridge, including parapet walls on the approach road to Penrhyn Castle Port
Spanning the Afon Cegin at the inner end of Penrhyn Docks. Reached off the Llandegai road and carrying the rear drive into the Penrhyn Estate.
II Tan-y-Coed
Elevated above the road with broad views across the Menai Straits; at the W end of the old Holyhead road cutting.
II Penybryn Bridge, including railings & lamp standards
Carried the lane up to the Golf Club, over the sunken section of the old Holyhead road just below The Old Farmhouse.
II Pont Penrhyn (partly in Bangor community)
Spanning the Afon Cegin just south of the present main approach to the docks at Porth Penrhyn, the road carried by the bridge leads to the Port Lodge entrance to Penrhyn Castle.

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The Old Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Bangor, Gwynedd