NPRN408375
Map ReferenceSH75NW
Grid ReferenceSH7333058780
Unitary (Local) AuthorityConwy
Old CountyCaernarfonshire
CommunityTrefriw
Type Of SiteFARMSTEAD
PeriodPost Medieval
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Description
Geuallt is situated on the Carneddau below, and between Clogwyn Cigfran and Creigiau Geuallt, to the northeast of Capel Curig.
Geuallt farmstead was a stone built downhill sited farmhouse. Two-roomed stone-built house measures 12m x 6m with a lean-to on the rear, south-west, side accessed from inside. The main building is well preserved with the west gable standing but leaning outwards. The main house has opposing entrances and a small window in the gable end, with a slot to the right of the rear door (entry to lean-to), for a timber frame for roof and internal partition. The fireplace was in the north-west room, the stack and fireplace beam now collapsed. The right-hand wall of the fireplace has a small storage recess. An additional room apparently of the same build but with an external entrance is cut into the hillslope against the chimney on the north-west, presumably part of the original build.
Externally, there is a goose or dog pen by the front (north-east) door built from large slabs of stone. A windowless building with an entrance on the south-east stands to the north-east of the main house. This is substantially built and survives to the height of the gables. There are revetments and an enclosure on the south-east side of the, now very muddy, yard. Both buildings are roofless, but with the remains of thick heavy roofing slate/stones.
The main house contains two mature sycamore trees which must be seen as a serious long-term threat. A path and steps lead to a barn to the west (NPRN 533987; duplicate data below).
Dave Hopewell, GAT, 30 October 2013.
JA/INW, RCAHMW, 19 October 2008

A hundred yards to the west is a small flight of pitched stone steps leading towards a field barn/cowhouse (NPRN 533987). The field barn/cowhouse is 180 metres to the west of the farmhouse, it is now roofless and approximately 9 x 6 metres, with repair buttresses built against its western gable. There is a roughly circular walled enclosure built against the eastern gable.





19th October 2008 JA / INW