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
19640
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1998
Date of Amendment
01/04/1998
Name of Property
Penygraig
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanengan
Town
Pwllhel
Locality
Abersoch
Easting
231241
Northing
328403
Street Side
Location
Situated in Abersoch on left side of steep hill on road to Mynytho, about 50m from junction with A499.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Single-storey L-plan cottage, the cross wing an original small cottage, extended to S in sympathetic manner between 1900 and 1918 (O.S. maps). This may be the Aberuchaf Cottage designed by Clough Williams-Ellis in 1906.
Exterior
Cottage, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs of small slates, stone gable copings, and whitewashed end stacks to crosswing and to ridge of main range. L-plan with older cottage as crosswing at N end, projecting E. Older part has boulder foundations, 9-pane window in rear N wall and a small E end loft light. S side has 4-pane sash to right and centre door now within loggia of added early C20 wing. This has 2-bay full-height opening to right with 2 x 9-pane windows on inner back wall and the doors into each range at either end. To left of loggia are 2 x 9-pane windows, and S end gable has loft light and paired 9-pane windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of the last single storey cottages in Abersoch, carefully extended in a free vernacular idiom in early C20.
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