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Ty-isaf

A Grade II Listed Building in Mawddwy, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7568 / 52°45'24"N

Longitude: -3.6279 / 3°37'40"W

OS Eastings: 290232

OS Northings: 318925

OS Grid: SH902189

Mapcode National: GBR 6C.ZF6L

Mapcode Global: WH67R.7YNZ

Plus Code: 9C4RQ94C+PR

Entry Name: Ty-isaf

Listing Date: 4 November 1999

Last Amended: 4 November 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22621

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300022621

Location: The building fronts the main N-S road through the valley on the E side, just S of the village centre of Llanymawddwy.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Machynlleth

Community: Mawddwy

Community: Mawddwy

Locality: Llanymawddwy

Traditional County: Merionethshire

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History

The building, including the shopfront, is probably of the mid-later C19.

Exterior

House with village store attached aligned along the road, built of coursed rubble with a slate roof. Two storeys, 2 bays, with a shop in the single storey extension to the left. Boarded door to the house on strap hinges, set within a slate slab open fronted porch with a gabled slate roof and shaped bargeboards. Two-light 4-pane casement windows to each floor, with a further window over the porch. Slate lintels to the ground floor openings, timber to the first floor. Gable stacks with drip courses and neck drip course. To the left, a small shopfront containing a bowed and paned shop window, and, to its left, a door with plain overlight bearing the gilded inscription Wm THOMAS, the whole shopfront confined within 3 panelled pilasters with outset heads supporting a weatherboard. Further to the left, a cartshed with two pitching doors set in a small raised gabled dormer. Lean-to added to the rear of the house, partly glazed.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well-preserved substantial C19 village house with associated shop and store. The shop retains a fine front.

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  • II Pen-y-graean
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  • II Ty-uchaf
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  • II Church of St Tydecho
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  • II Lloyd Chest Tomb at the Church of St Tydecho
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  • II Farm building at Wern-gau
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