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
21809
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/05/1999
Date of Amendment
28/05/1999
Name of Property
Tyn Twll
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanwnda
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Moel Tryfan
Easting
250711
Northing
356495
Street Side
Location
Situated within its own irregular rubble-walled enclosure on moorland off the track running south-eastwards from Rhosgadfan towards the former Moel Tryfan Quarry.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, with its existing enclosure from the moorland already established, the cottage is likely to have been built in the early C19, its occupants living from agriculture and probably also from work in the nearby Moel Tryfan Quarry, operational by 1800. The section of the cottage to the left of the ridge stack may be an addition to a 2-room plan and could have served as a cowhouse, but there is no clear evidence for this and the cottage may always have been of 3-room plan.
Exterior
Cottage. Single-storey, probable 3-room plan, aligned roughly east-west with a virtually full-length lean-to to the rear. Limewashed rubblestone; slate roof with integral end stack to right and more substantial ridge stack to left of centre. Front has 6-paned sash windows to either side of slightly offset plank door to right of ridge stack with 2 further 6-paned sashes to left, all windows with slate cills.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a well-restored and exceptionally well-preserved early C19 smallholder's cottage, built in the local vernacular tradition and forming a distinctive component in a particularly important landscape of settlement/encroachment on Cilgwyn Common, associated with the early exploitation of slate quarries in this area.
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