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
21819
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/05/1999
Date of Amendment
28/05/1999
Name of Property
Tyddyn-Difyr and associated field walls
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanwnda
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Rhosgadfan
Easting
251365
Northing
356807
Street Side
Location
Situated in isolated location above and to the north-east of Rhosgadfan on moorland edge within its own drystone-walled small field system, reached by a rough track from the road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on the 1839 Tithe Map with its existing small field system already intact, the smallholding is likely to have been established in the C19, its occupants probably supplementing their agricultural income by working in one of the local slate quarries. The attached cowhouse now forms part of the domestic accommodation.
Exterior
Cottage and attached cowhouse. Single-storey 2-room cottage, aligned roughly north-east to south-west with cowhouse attached to left gable end. Painted rubblestone, rendered to right gable end; slate roof with integral end stacks to cottage, left at junction with former cowhouse. Cottage has C20 windows in original openings to either side of central entrance under large C20 gabled porch. The former cowhouse has a boarded door to the front with a small rooflight directly above.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding a degree of alteration, as a remarkably well-preserved example of a typical early C19 encroachment surrounded by moorland, characteristic of the area. Built in the local vernacular tradition, the cottage, with its associated well-preserved small field system, forms a highly distinctive and prominent component of the settlement/encroachment landscape associated with the early exploitation of slate quarries in this area.
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