Washhouse Building at Plas Dolbenmaen, Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9639 / 52°57'50"N

Longitude: -4.225 / 4°13'29"W

OS Eastings: 250660

OS Northings: 343048

OS Grid: SH506430

Mapcode National: GBR 5L.K651

Mapcode Global: WH55C.2RDM

Plus Code: 9C4QXQ7G+H2

Entry Name: Washhouse Building at Plas Dolbenmaen

Listing Date: 30 March 1999

Last Amended: 30 March 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21552

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300021552

Location: The group of farm buildings lie immediately W of Plas Dolbenmaen, and form a yard with the motte in the W corner. The washhouse is adjacent to the house, and gable end on to the NE range.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Dolbenmaen

Community: Dolbenmaen

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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History

The house, the site of a princely court and centre of the demesne of Dolbenmaen, was one of only two in the district registered with 2 hearths in the 1662 return. It was probably rebuilt in the early C18 on the same site of long occupation, and the farm buildings date to that or a subsequent period.

Exterior

Built of local stone rubble, originally with a slate roof. The washhouse stands close to the house, and forms, with the NW and NE ranges of farm buildings the farmyard against the W side of the farmhouse. It has a door and window facing into the yard.

Interior

Not accessible at the time of inspection.

Reasons for Listing

Included, notwithstanding its present condition, as an essential element in the fine group of farm buildings for a major farm of the district, and which have not been modernised since the C19. Of group value with the other farm buildings and the Scheduled motte.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Plas Dolbenmaen
The farmhouse stands in the angle formed by the elbow in the old Tremadoc to Caernarfon road, and the recently built by-pass.
II NE Range of Farm Buildings at Plas Dolbenmaen
The group of farm buildings lie immediately W of Plas Dolbenmaen farmhouse. The NE range lies parallel to the old road, and end on to the NW range.
II NW Range of Farm Buildings at Plas Dolbenmaen
The group of farm buildings lie immediately W of Plas Dolbenmaen. The NW range flanks the entrance to the yard, the SW end cutting into the motte.
II Lychgate to the Church of St Mary
The lychgate stands across the angle of the cut off corner of the main Tremadoc to Caernarfon road, and the Cwm Pennant road.
II* Parish Church of St Mary
The parish church lies on a small by-passed section of the main road at the junction with the Cwm Pennant road. It stands within an irregularly shaped graveyard and is approached through a lych gate.
II Pont Dolbenmaen
The bridge is on the by-passed section of the Tremadoc to Caernarfon Road immediately S of the junction with the Cwm Pennant road.
II Plas Holland
The building, formerly the rectory, lies in its own grounds immediately to the W of the parish church.
II Ty-newydd Farmhouse
The farmhouse stands back from the road running from the main A487 Tremadoc to Caernarfon Road to Garndolbenmaen.

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Washhouse Building at Plas Dolbenmaen

A Grade II Listed Building in Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd