19332

 

II  

Designated  

11/02/1998  

11/02/1998  

Efail Pont y Gof  

 

Gwynedd  

Botwnnog  

Pwllheli  

Botwnnog  

225781  

331255  

 

N of the roadside next to a bend in the B4413 road at the W end of Botwnnog village.  

Domestic  

 

A croglofft cottage and adjoining smithy, probably dating from the early C19, built in a single range.  

Squared rubble stone; laid in big coursed blocks. Roof of small slates laid in diminishing courses; stone end-stacks, caps have simple oversailing course and water tabling at base. Single-storey cottage is whitewashed, symmetrical S front with boarded and half-glazed door in centre, flanked either side by 16-pane sashes, thin slate sills. Small single-light window to loft in E gable. Smithy has door in two halves and, to left, window with 10-pane upper light, boarded below. Stone lean-to attached to W gable has a similar sized opening (now blocked) with iron rail.  

Cottage entry direct into kitchen; ceiling floored at the collar. Earth floor (now largely concreted); blocked fireplace opening, side cupboard. Central boarded partition with door to downstairs bedroom. Above, in upper partition, door to croggloft. Inside smithy, the forge has been removed. Another doorway in back wall opposite entry creates through-passage. Interior of lean-to, now empty, formerly housed bellows.  

A well-preserved croglofft cottage and smithy; now rare and historically important examples of Welsh regional vernacular architecture, retaining early character and detail.