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
19/10/1998
Date of Amendment
19/10/1998
Name of Property
Bronallt
Location
The row of estate cottages form a block fronting the Nebo Road on the E side climbing towards the church, and continuing the line established by Nos 1 and 2.
History
Built in the mid C19 as a group of estate cottages for workers on the Voelas Estate, probably c1845, the date shown on Nos 1 and 2. No 5 was once the village post office, and it has now incorporated the former saddlery shop at the N end.
Exterior
No 5 adjoins No 3 on the N, and fronts the Nebo Road. The entrance door in the lower bay is studded, and set within a segmental headed arch with a label moulding over, and 4-paned window above. A large external stack protrudes partly at the rear. The upper bay has a 2-light timber casement window in a small gable lighting the upper room. The cottage is now combined with the former saddlery shop, which forms a cross wing at the N end. Large ground floor shop window with a blind box extending over the framed and battened entrance door on the right. Three casement windows in the gable end, the centre 2-light, flanked by single light windows. End gable stack.
Reason for designation
Included as well detailed C19 estate cottages, of group value at the centre of Pentrefoelas.
Group Description
3, 4 & 5 Nebo Road
Built of local dark coloured stone rubble with slate roofs. Timber casement windows with deep monolithic stone lintels outlined by a label course. Large later extension to the rear.
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