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Stables at Dolrhyd

A Grade II Listed Building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7489 / 52°44'55"N

Longitude: -3.9025 / 3°54'8"W

OS Eastings: 271684

OS Northings: 318501

OS Grid: SH716185

Mapcode National: GBR 60.ZSLQ

Mapcode Global: WH56P.05YH

Plus Code: 9C4RP3XX+G2

Entry Name: Stables at Dolrhyd

Listing Date: 23 November 1987

Last Amended: 19 June 1990

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 5130

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300005130

Location: To NW of Dolgellau; reached by a short drive. Dolrhyd House below to SW.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Dolgellau

Community: Dolgellau

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Stable

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Exterior

L-plan group. The barn is late Cl7/early Cl8; the lower stable range is dated l763 and initialled W V Esq - built by William Vaughan. Both were restored in l980. Rubble walls, slate roof - old small slates to barn; chimney stack to left gable end of stables.
The barn has gable end parapets with quarter round moulded kneelers; dove boxes to right gable end above string course.

Slit ventilators, (blocked) all round. Tudor label over cambered arch former cart entrance with voussoirs, now with modern glazed infill; corresponding cart entrance to rear. Boarded door at right end.
The symmetrical 2-storey, 8-window stable range has central pediment containing a small pane circular window. Small lst floor windows; casement windows and half glazed doors to left with right flanking central twin former coach entrances with cambered voussoir heads and modern glazed infill.

Interior

Modernised interiors. The barn retains 7-bay roof with pegged A-frame trusses, curved struts and purlins.

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value with Dolrhyd House and Gazebo or Music Room.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Barn Ranges at Dolrhyd
    To NW of Dolgellau; reached by a short drive. Dolrhyd House below to SW.
  • II Dolrhyd House
    To NW of Dolgellau; reached up a short drive. End on to the hillside.
  • II* Gazebo or Music room at Dolrhyd
    To S of Dolrhyd House at the edge of the forecourt. To NW of Dolgellau; reached up a short drive.
  • II Llyndir
    On the roadside some 500m E of the junction with the A493.
  • II Hen Efail
    About 1km NW of centre of Dolgellau, on golf course, of which Hen Efail is now the club house.
  • II Brynadda
    Set in its own grounds on a knoll below Coed Mur-poeth reached via a lane off the SW side of the Towyn Road 400m from the junction with the A493.
  • II* Bryn-y-Gwin (Bryn-y-Gwin Isaf)
    Sited on the hillside overlooking the road in its own grounds and reached via a drive leading from a gateway some 500m West of Pont Pandy'r-Odyn.
  • II Pont Pandy'r-Odyn
    N of the modern bridge carrying the Towyn road over the Ceunant Brook.

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