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Latitude: 53.1437 / 53°8'37"N
Longitude: -4.0417 / 4°2'30"W
OS Eastings: 263536
OS Northings: 362671
OS Grid: SH635626
Mapcode National: GBR 5T.5W4Y
Mapcode Global: WH54N.W7KV
Plus Code: 9C5Q4XV5+F8
Entry Name: Maes-Caradoc
Listing Date: 24 May 2000
Last Amended: 24 May 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 23388
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300023388
Location: Remote roadside position on minor valley road running parallel with the A5 along the Ogwen valley; low rubblestone wall in front of right end of farmhouse with stone-on-edge coping to sides and iron g
County: Gwynedd
Town: Bangor
Community: Llandygai (Llandygái)
Community: Llandygai
Locality: Nant Ffrancon
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
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The farmhouse was probably built c1880 as part of the continuing expansion of farming in the remote Ogwen valley at this period, much of which sponsored by the Penrhyn Estate. The road on which the farmhouse is situated is the so-called "old road", an improvement by the Estate in 1790-1 of what Thomas Pennant had described as "the most dreadfull horsepath in Wales". Several other farms are sited on this road, which was effectively superseded as the main through route along the Ogwen valley by the building of the turnpike road on its eastern side in 1802.
Long rectangular 2-storey building, aligned roughly north-south and divided into 2 distinct, although contemporary units. Roughcast rubblestone with painted brick window and door surrounds; slate roof with pebble-dashed brick stacks. Front has 6 regularly spaced recessed sash windows with slightly cambered heads and slate cills on first floor, all 6-paned; fenestration pattern repeated on ground floor with central entrance to each unit, C20 door to left and boarded door to right under wide shallow-pitched lean-to porch with cambered outer doorway; integral end stacks and ridge stack roughly to centre. Catslide outshut to rear of N house, and 6-pane sash windows. Rear of S house is blind.
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Included as a well-preserved rather unusual late C19 'double' farmhouse, with contemporary farmbuildings, illustrative of the fact that colonisation of marginal agricultural land by the Penrhyn Estate was continuing well into the late C19. With its adjoining farmbuildings, Maes-Caradoc forms a typically distinctive component of this rugged upland landscape.
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