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
21818
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/05/1999
Date of Amendment
28/05/1999
Name of Property
Tegfan and adjoining cottage to right
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanwnda
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Rhosgadfan
Easting
250525
Northing
356979
Street Side
SE
Location
Situated on south-east side of road in Rhosgadfan; rubblestone wall in front to pavement, original stone-on-edge coping mostly replaced with concrete finials and horizontal steel railing; iron gate to each cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Pair of cottages built for workers on the Newborough Estate in the 1840s, the cottages are not shown on the 1839 Tithe Map but their occupants are listed in the 1851 census. C20 flat-roofed and lean-to additions to front of both cottages.
Exterior
Pair of single-storey cottages, each originally of one-room plan. Snecked rubblestone; pyramidal slate roof, left cottage (Tegfan) retaining its original large slates, with tall shared stack to centre. Entrances to left and right respectively, with single windows flanking stack, both C20 but in original openings. Entrance to Tegfan now subsumed in C20 flat-roofed addition to front, that to right cottage has C20 porch with tin roof and half-glazed door with further lean-to addition projecting to front.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included, despite extension and considerable alteration, as an example of the type of cottages provided for its workers by the Newborough Estate in the 1840s.
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