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
19831
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1998
Date of Amendment
14/05/1998
Name of Property
Penstep
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfrothen
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Plas Brondanw Estate
Easting
261651
Northing
342238
Street Side
Location
Prominently located on a bend in the Croesor road immediately S of and opposite Plas Brondanw; set back slightly and raised up on a revetted bank.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 pair of 2 storeyed houses, altered by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and owner of the Brondanw estate from 1908 until his death in 1978; currently one house.
Exterior
2-storey terrace of two houses, now converted to one; of rubble construction, partly-whitened (around former foliage covering) with continuous modern slate roof. This has coved eaves and plain end chimneys with cornicing and weathercoursing; further, similar chimney off-centre to R. Symmetrical 5-bay front with entrances to bays 2 and 4; multi-pane C20 glazed doors with sloped, hipped metal canopies over. 15-pane recessed sash windows (renewed) to ground floor openings except that to far L, of 12 panes; smaller 12-pane sashes to first floor. 5 wide splayed steps, partly-cobbled, lead up to the entrance at L.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Plas Brondanw and associated items.
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