CPAT Regional Sites & Monuments Record

PRN 32607 - Bontdolgadfan, grain and timber kiln
Listed Building 8702 (II )

Listed building

The following is from Cadw's Listed Buildings database

Set immediately beside and below the road with its gable end facing diagonally across a corner at the top of the steep hill down to Bont Pandy. It is slightly to the N and opposite the drive and lodge to Plās Llywn Owen.

Later C19, built by the Winteringham Stable Estate to serve the Gelli-dymyll mill.

A low single storey rubble building with a slate roof and ventilating ridge tiles. SW gable end is just above road level and has decorative bargeboards with openwork acorns of the family arms. Tumbled infill red brick to timber framing. Central door servicing the loft floor, with a W monogram on a lower quoin. On the right side, a door with cambered brick voussoirs, and square ventilator on the downhill gable.

Door leads to working area in front of the kiln mouth, which has a grate to a firebox in a brick pedestal, the outer sides curving up on groin ribs to iron beams, which form a table at the upper level in which perforated metal sheeting is laid for the drying floor. Simple roof structure.

Listed as a rare and unaltered example of this building type, and for its prominent setting by the road.

Ordnance Survey Map 1886 (1st Ed) scale 1:2500, Mont XXVII, 9.

Sources:-
Cadw Listing database , 2000 , ,

record created 19/04/94 , last updated 23/11/00
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