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Plas Dolbenmaen

A Grade II Listed Building in Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.964 / 52°57'50"N

Longitude: -4.2246 / 4°13'28"W

OS Eastings: 250684

OS Northings: 343052

OS Grid: SH506430

Mapcode National: GBR 5L.K689

Mapcode Global: WH55C.2RKL

Plus Code: 9C4QXQ7G+H5

Entry Name: Plas Dolbenmaen

Listing Date: 19 October 1971

Last Amended: 30 March 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4280

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004280

Location: The farmhouse stands in the angle formed by the elbow in the old Tremadoc to Caernarfon road, and the recently built by-pass.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Dolbenmaen

Community: Dolbenmaen

Community: Dolbenmaen

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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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 late C18 on the same site of long occupation, as indicated by the adjacent fine motte and moat.

Exterior

Built of roughly coursed rubble stonework, with a roof of old small slates, grouted up. The house form is a 4-window bay front with end chimney stacks, a lean-to on the left end (E), and a probable coeval rear wing on the right, also with a gable stack and itself extended by a cat-slide roof to the W. Recessed 12-pane sash windows noted in the former description boarded over at the time of inspection, July 1998, and a small fire window at the left end. Door at the rear, in the angle with the rear wing, has a projecting stone lintel of Caernarfonshire form. Weather coursing to the stacks.

The farm buildings lie to the W.

Interior

Not accessible at the time of inspection.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a caput house of some importance in the history of the district, of which some early fabric survives, in a substantial C18 vernacular farmhouse.

The motte is a Scheduled Ancient Monument No 11/2080/CN063(GWY).

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • 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 Washhouse Building at Plas Dolbenmaen
    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.
  • 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 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* 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 Plas Holland
    The building, formerly the rectory, lies in its own grounds immediately to the W of the parish church.
  • II Ysgubor Gerrig
    The house stands back from the main Tremadoc to Caernarfon road, approximately 600m SW of Dolbenmaen church.

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