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Bwlch Coch Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7263 / 52°43'34"N

Longitude: -3.8615 / 3°51'41"W

OS Eastings: 274384

OS Northings: 315921

OS Grid: SH743159

Mapcode National: GBR 91.1CX2

Mapcode Global: WH56P.NQDT

Plus Code: 9C4RP4GQ+GC

Entry Name: Bwlch Coch Farmhouse

Listing Date: 19 June 1990

Last Amended: 19 June 1990

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 5146

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300005146

Location: Located at the very end of the road up the Arran Valley below Mynydd Gwerngraig. On rising ground gable end on to the road.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Dolgellau

Community: Dolgellau

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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Exterior

Cl7. End chimney, two unit cross-passage regional house, interior re-ordered cl800. Third unit with external access only added to right in later Cl7/early Cl8.

l storey, 2 window house. Rubble masonry. Steeply pitched quarry slate roofs, laid to diminishing courses, plain eaves, close verges. Square stone stack to right, rectangular set lengthways to ridge to left, moulded cap, water tabling. Similar square stack to later unit, water tabling, raking gable parapets.
Two Cl8 gabled stone dormers to house. Close verges, laced valleys, modern windows. Modern windows to ground floor, dropped sills, stone lintels. Broad doorway offset to left of centre, stone lintel projects to form dripstone. Modern door. Broad doorway to later unit; stone lintel, strap and pintle hung plank door.
Corresponding rear elevation to house with projecting lintel over former back door (now window) of cross-passage. Small window to right, blocked window to left, stone lintels. Window to rear of later unit, stone lintel set under eaves.

Early Cl9 lofted cowhouse adjoins to left. Coursed rubble masonry. Steeply pitched quarry slate roof, diminishing courses, plain eaves, close verges. Central doorway, deep stone lintel, split door. Loft door set under eaves to left, vent to gable end. Stone lintel over split door to left on rear. Tie beam trusses.

Interior

Stop chamfered transverse ceiling beams, end ones resting against walls on stone corbels. Similarly stop chamfered joists, and bressumer over broad fireplace. Dog leg stair of cl800 to centre of house. Interior of later unit not inspected.

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  • II Stable at Bwlch Coch Farm
    Located at the very end of the road up the Arran Valley below Mynydd Gwerngraig. On rising ground gable end on to the road.
  • II Barn at Dref Cerrig Farm
    Adjacent to and in line with the farmhouse located at the end of a track shared with Tyddyn Ednyfed up the Arran Valley road.
  • II Dref Cerrig Farmhouse
    Located at the end of a long track shared with Tyddyn Ednyfed off the road up the Arran Valley, l.5km from the junction with Arran Road.
  • II Stable at Dref Cerrig Farm
    Located at the end of a long track shared with Tyddyn Ednyfed off the road up the Arran Valley, l.5km from the junction with Arran Road.
  • II Cartshed with Granary at Plas-y-Brithdir
    Adjoining farmhouse to E alongside the road.
  • II Plas-y-Brithdir Farmhouse
    Situated on rising ground overlooking the eastern part of the town, alongside the road before it crosses the River Arran.
  • II Stables at Plas-y-Brithdir
    Adjoining farmhouse to E alongside the road.
  • II Field Barn at Bryn Mawr
    Situated across a stream 50m E of the farm track 200 metres NE of the farmhouse.

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