Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
15453
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1995
Date of Amendment
31/01/1995
Name of Property
Quay Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Barmouth
Town
Barmouth
Locality
Barmouth
Easting
261572
Northing
315576
Street Side
N
Location
Set back from the street line behind dwarf rubble forecourt walls with simple central gate. The cottage is partly overlapped to the L by a late C19 gabled shop building.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A late C17/early C18 2 storey 3 window cottage, altered in the early and late C19.
Exterior
Rubble construction under a slate roof with decorative ridge and 3 small, C20 skylights. Cemented rubble gable to L; squat end stacks with weather coursing, that to the R mostly absorbed into a later adjoining building, and that to the L with tall brick upper section, a late C19 alteration. Pebbledashed facade with raised cement entablature to central recessed entrance. Late Victorian doorwith glazed upper panels. 2-pane late Victorian sashes withprojecting slate cills.
Adjoining at right-angles to the R, its gable end on the street line, a small single-storey rendered-rubble and slate building, probably a former wash house or shop; C19. Recessed, part-glazed Victorian door to the street-facing gable end with plain squat chimney above. 9-pane near-flush sash window to W side wall.
Interior
Entrance hall with Victorian geometric tiled floor. Fine 3-storey early C19 well stair with swept mahogany rail; oak treads and risers up to first floor, then pine. Flat iron triple lozenge motif balusters alternating with stick balusters; scrolled tread-ends. Early C19 6-panelled doors off hall, the room to the L with internal reeded doorcase with corner rosettes. Large inglebeam to right-handroom. Panelled shutters to all ground and first-floor windows.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare example in Barmouth of a C17/C18 vernacular cottage facing the old harbour, with good early C19 interior features.
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