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
21335
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/02/1999
Date of Amendment
08/02/1999
Name of Property
Otter House at Ty Iocws
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llannor
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Abererch
Easting
237924
Northing
336763
Street Side
W
Location
Ty Iocws (formerly Yoke House) stands at the end of a long driveway, leaving the main road approximately 1km N of Pwllheli. The Otter House is in the centre of a pebbled service yard to the N of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
The building is probably mid-later C19 in date, and housed otters with which to train the estate otter hounds.
Exterior
The building is circular and stands on a brick plinth taking up the slope of the ground. It consists of a lower section of close-spaced railings with a gate on the N, an upper section of latticed battens painted white topped by a moulded cornice, and a conical roof covered in zinc sheeting. Within, a smaller circular timber house built of vertical boards, with two round topped openings, and a similar conical zinc roof, the whole structure suspended from the cross tie beam of the the main roof over a circular zinc-lined moat. The interior of the inner house is divided across the diameter by a vertical partition.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an extremely unusual and highly distinctive minor building type, which forms part of a group at Ty Iocws.
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