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
21811
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/05/1999
Date of Amendment
28/05/1999
Name of Property
Cae'r Gors
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanwnda
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Rhosgadfan
Easting
250654
Northing
357327
Street Side
Location
Located on the left side of the road from Rhostryfan to the crossroads in Rhosgadfan, the cottage has a low rubblestone wall to the front and a high rubblestone wall with iron gate to the road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, the cottage is typical of many in the area, being of 2-room plan with an attached cowhouse, and was probably built in the early C19. The writer, Kate Roberts, whose novels, such as Tea in the Heather, depict the life of the local smallholders and quarryworkers in the early C20, was born here in 1891. The cottage is now roofless and maintained as a managed ruin.
Exterior
Cottage. Single-storey 2-room plan, aligned roughly north-east to south-west, with full-length catslide outshut to rear; cowhouse attached to north-east gable end under same roofline as cottage. Roughly coursed rubblestone; roofless and with all door and window joinery missing at time of Survey. Cottage has windows to either side of offset entrance with substantial ridge stack to left at junction with cowhouse and an integral end stack to right. Cowhouse has offset doorway to front and another doorway to rear.
Interior
Roofless, the cottage has a stone cross wall and a large fireplace with timber lintel to the left stack; smaller fireplace to right room.
Reason for designation
Listed, despite its condition for its association with the writer, Kate Roberts.
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