Byre at Dolgun Uchaf is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 June 1966. House.
Byre at Dolgun Uchaf
- WRENN ID
- under-lintel-kestrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1966
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The property comprises a farmhouse, byre, barn, and stable, dating to the early 18th century. The whitewashed farmhouse is built of rubble masonry with a moderately pitched slate roof, plain eaves, and deep verges. A tall square rendered stone stack is located at the right end, and a rendered lateral stack is on the front, featuring slated offsets and gablets with water tabling. The farmhouse is two storeys high with two windows under the eaves. There are also larger casement windows on the ground floor, to the right. A round arched doorway is topped with stone voussoirs and has a half-glazed door. A whitewashed rubble lean-to extends to the right, with a slate roof, rubble stack, a two-light window, and a plank door, all under stone lintels. A lateral stack is to the left, with a small window. A stone stair leading to a granary obscures the original cross passage door, and there is a plank granary door under the eaves. A loading door is positioned to the left over a cambered cartshed entry. A lean-to cartshed adjoins the farmhouse to the left, built of rubble masonry with a slate roof, featuring a loft door and a cartshed entry, both with timber lintels. A modern rubble scullery lean-to is located at the rear with a slate roof, a tall rendered brick stack, a modern door, and a two-light window.
An early 18th century barn adjoins the farmhouse at right angles to the right on the rear elevation. It is constructed of rubble masonry with a steeply pitched quarry slate roof, plain eaves, and deep verges, with doorways on the top end. One gable end has been rebuilt. The barn features through-purlin collared trusses, which are mostly repaired, alongside a threshing floor. The downhill end originally contained a lofted cowhouse, while a lower storage bay is situated above a sillbeam.
A 19th-century stable adjoins the eastern end of the farmhouse, built of coursed rubble masonry with a moderately pitched quarry slate roof, plain eaves, and close verges. A loft doorway under the eaves has a plank door, and a split stable door is on the ground floor to the right, underneath a deep stone lintel. A tackroom and loosebox are included in the rear outshot, fitted with timber stalls and featuring a 19th-century collared truss.
Inside the farmhouse, a heavy stop-chamfered plank and muntin dais partition is present, alongside an original doorway with an ogee doorhead and an early three-plank door. Stop-chamfered ceiling beams are found in the former service rooms at the eastern end, and a stop-chamfered bressumer is above the end fireplace, which has been partly blocked. A screens partition extends through the first floor. The interior of the cartshed may contain evidence of original fenestration, and the cross passage features original rounded doorways with stone voussoirs. The roof of the main farmhouse section consists of a seven-bay roof with through-purlin arch braced collar trusses, upper struts, and cusped details on two trusses over the former open hall, with chamfering. Straight wind braces are present on the original purlins throughout.
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