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Graig Fach

A Grade II Listed Building in Barmouth, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7201 / 52°43'12"N

Longitude: -4.0501 / 4°3'0"W

OS Eastings: 261632

OS Northings: 315572

OS Grid: SH616155

Mapcode National: GBR 8T.1MFW

Mapcode Global: WH56L.RWLM

Entry Name: Graig Fach

Listing Date: 31 January 1995

Last Amended: 31 January 1995

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 15451

Building Class: Domestic

Location: Set back slightly behind a metalled forecourt with an adjacent petrol station to the R.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Barmouth (Bermo)

Community: Barmouth

Built-Up Area: Barmouth

Traditional County: Merionethshire

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History

A terrace of 2 early C19 houses expressed as reflected units.

Exterior

Of coursed, rough-dressed stone with shallow-pitched modern slate roof. Plain eaves. Plain projecting end chimneys with weather coursing.

3 storeys, each with one window elevation. Recessed entrances with contemporary wooden doors and narrow diamond-latticed top-lights. Contemporary, slightly-recessed sash windows with projecting stone cills: those to first floors and ground floor R of 16 panes; those tosecond floor of 12. The left-hand house has a plain late C19 sash toits ground floor.

Interior

Largely unaltered this century; dog-leg stairs in both houses and slate floors to ground floor rooms. Plain simply moulded wooden fireplaces with later C19 ranges; 4-panelled Victorian doors.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a pair of largely unaltered houses in a prominent location.

Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Graig Fach
    Set back slightly behind a metalled forecourt with an adjacent petrol station to the R.
  • II Anchor Cottage
    On the street-line, partly set back behind a modern brick dwarf-walled forecourt/garden.
  • II Quay Cottage
    Set back from the street line behind dwarf rubble forecourt walls with simple central gate. The cottage is partly overlapped to the L by a late C19 gabled shop building.
  • II Former Wash-House or Shop advanced to the R of Quay Cottage
    Set back from the street line behind dwarf rubble forecourt walls with simple central gate. The cottage is partly overlapped to the L by a late C19 gabled shop building.
  • II St David's Church
    Prominently located at the approach to the lower part of the town centre; on a triangular plot with Harbour Lane to the S and with stone gate piers to rubble boundary wall.
  • II Pen-y-Graig Isa
    Situated against the steep slope of the hill above Bennar Terrace and bordered to the E side and rear by a narrow, part stepped lane.
  • II Nos.2 & 3 Bennar Terrace,,,,,gwynedd,
    Bennar Terrace is a steeply sloping footpath, one of the principal routes to thread its way through Old Barmouth. Nos 2 and 3 form a long row, tucked against the slope immediately behind the blocks r
  • II Pen-y--Gribin and Bwth-yn-y-Bryn with rear attached outbuilding and stone steps adjoining to
    Located towards the top of the old town on a raised terrace and behind small dwarf-walls; partly built against the rock of the hill.

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