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Pen-y-bryn

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanberis, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1036 / 53°6'13"N

Longitude: -4.0797 / 4°4'47"W

OS Eastings: 260863

OS Northings: 358290

OS Grid: SH608582

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.8KFR

Mapcode Global: WH54V.98J1

Plus Code: 9C5Q4W3C+C4

Entry Name: Pen-y-bryn

Listing Date: 28 May 1999

Last Amended: 28 May 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21835

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300021835

Location: Located within its own small field system in a prominent position on rising ground above the A 4086 at Nant Peris.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Llanberis

Community: Llanberis

Locality: Nant Peris

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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History

Early C19 small farmhouse set within its own field system; not shown on the 1838 Tithe Map, the farmhouse is likely to have been built c1850.

Exterior

Farmhouse. 2-storey, 2-room plan with central staircase and integral end stacks; catslide lean-to to rear. Irregularly coursed rubblestone with distinctive wide-jointed white mortar, rendered to gable ends and rear; slate roof. 4-pane sashes, of reduced proportions and directly beneath eaves to first floor, with slate cills to either side of central C20 glazed door. Catslide lean-to to rear has had eaves raised and projects beyond original extent to left.

Interior

Interior not accessible at time of survey.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a substantially unaltered mid-C19 small farmhouse, built within the local vernacular tradition, and forming a significant component in the dispersed settlement pattern of Nant Peris.

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