Tan-y-Grisiau, (Country Choice) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 April 1951. House.

Tan-y-Grisiau, (Country Choice)

WRENN ID
sharp-frieze-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 April 1951
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Tan-y-Grisiau, also known as Country Choice, is a late 17th century house that may have originally comprised three separate domestic units stacked one above the other. The building is a single storey with attics and a basement, constructed from whitewashed rubble and topped with a medium-pitched slate roof. It features large stacks at the gable ends, which have simple capping and weather coursing, with the stack facing the street being taller. The gable parapets are made of rubble.

The main northwest facade is irregular, featuring two plain early 20th century wooden cross-windows on the ground floor, flanking a modern six-panelled recessed door that provides access down to the basement courtyard via a modern wooden stepped entrance. To the left of the entrance is a small three-pane modern window. There is a rough-hewn entrance to the basement, which includes a deeply recessed part-glazed 20th century door. Modern recessed windows are located to the left of the door and at the extreme right. The attic has three gabled dormers with early 19th century 16-pane sash windows that break the eaves. External access to the attic floor is provided by a flight of old slate steps with flanking rubble parapets, leading to a slightly recessed modern door with glazed upper lights at the top.

On the southeast side, which faces a narrow alley, there is a blocked entrance and two blocked windows, with a small original window opening under the eaves above, featuring a crude projecting slate-stone trough at the cill level and a modern six-pane casement. There is also a modern recessed glazed door on the street-facing gable, accompanied by a large plain-glazed window to the right.

Inside, the ground floor has a rough chamfered beamed ceiling and evidence of former post and panel partitioning. A 19th century pine corkscrew stair leads to the upper level, originating from an original short half-turn stone stair that is set within the thickness of the wall.

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