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Discovering Old Welsh Houses is a voluntary organisation which studies and celebrates the traditional houses of North Wales built between the 1400s and the mid 1700s and the lives of the people who lived in them.
We currently have a membership of over 200. We are registered with the UK Charity Commission (registration number 1131782) and managed by a Board of voluntary Trustees who are elected from our membership. Officers to carry out specific roles for the charity are selected from within the membership. We do not have any employees.
The Charity's aims as stated in its constitution are:
(1) To advance the education of the public in general (and particularly amongst professional and amateur historians, architects and archaeologists and local communities) on the subject of pre-1700 buildings in north Wales, where possible using dendrochronology (tree ring dating);
(2) And to promote research into the history of such buildings by volunteers and specialists for the public benefit in all aspects of that subject;
(3) And to publish the useful results.
Over the last 25 years the Group has published over 140 reports on tree ring dating, 90 building recordings and house histories for 180 houses. We have also produced 15 booklets on local histories.
The Group originated from the Snowdonia Dendrochronology Project which commenced in 2004. It became the North Wales Dendrochronology Project in 2009 and then the Dating Old Welsh Houses Group in 2012 before becoming the Discovering Old Welsh Houses Group in 2016.
The group currently has over 200 members organised into branches - broadly based on counties. Each group has an organiser who organises activities – including house visits, training sessions, and offer mentoring for members who want to undertake house history research.