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
20036
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Sarn y Plas
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Rhiw Plas
Easting
223834
Northing
328330
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Single storey cottage, C18, one of the older surviving examples of such cottages in the region. Part of the Plas-yn-Rhiw estate since before 1763, now owned by the National Trust. In 1842 occupied by John Williams, with 6 acres (2.4ha). The retirement home of the poet R S Thomas from 1978 to 1996. Cottage is also known as Sarn, Sarn Plas, Sarn y Rhiw or Sarn Rhiw.
Exterior
Cottage, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs. Single storey, built downhill with stone stacks, smaller at E end, larger at W, with drip stones. Former outbuilding attached uphill to W, stepped uphill with higher roofline. N front has ledged door with projecting stones at jambs (possibly an early feature cf barn at Methlem) and 4-pane casement to right. Large boulder footings. E end wall loft light and small light below. NE attached small pigsty at right angles to house with monopitch roof, grouted slate roof and stone slabs framing door. Range uphill of cottage has single centre half-glazed door up to eaves and one small window to right. At upper end is C20 added range running S, NW angle hipped. Rear S is rubble stone, two 4-pane casements to house, lower one with slab lintel, upper one under eaves, door to uphill section (perhaps inserted in C20) and C20 range running S to enclose upper end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the older single storey cottages of the region, a good example of the type.
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