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.
Date of Designation
18/04/1997
Date of Amendment
18/04/1997
Name of Property
Cae Glas
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Situated at the NE end of Y Felinheli in the Aber Pwll area. On the SE side of the former A487, some 50m NE of the bridge over the disused Bangor to Caernarvon railway line.
History
One of a row of five Vaynol estate cottages, probably of c1863.
Exterior
No 5 at right angles to rear has porch with plain bargeboards and two similar dormer gables. Brick stack.
Reason for designation
The best example of the simpler Vaynol estate cottage groups.
Group Description
Nos. 1-5 Cae Glas
Pink rubble stone with slate roof and three red brick stacks. Two storeys, single range of 4 small cottages to front and one in SE rear wing. Cottages are in pairs, each pair with one-window range each side of a double porch. Windows are 4-pane sashes with slate slab lintels and slate sills. Upper window heads break eaves slightly under stone dormer gables with fretted bargeboards. Porches are paired gabled with M shaped roof and arched entries, the arches in tooled grey stone.
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