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
22620
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
04/11/1999  
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999  
Name of Property
Pen-y-graean  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Mawddwy  
Town
Machynlleth  
Locality
Llanymawddwy  
Easting
290220  
Northing
318951  
Street Side
 
Location
The two cottages, Tan-y-graean and Pen-y-graean to the N are set above the main road through the valley, S of the centre of the village.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
One of a pair of cottages, probably built by the Estate of Sir William Roberts MD FRS of Bryn Hall who bought the Buckley Estate in 1876. The cottage was probably erected towards the end of the C19.  

Exterior
N gable end stack rebuilt.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved pair of estate cottages in a simple vernacular style, representative of the improvements carried out by a benevolent estate in the later C19.  

Group Description
Tan-y-graean and Pen-y-graean Built of snecked squared rubble stone, including some large blocks. Slate roofs. Each cottage is of 2 storeys, 2 bays, with a central 4-panelled door and plain overlight, set under a lean-to canopy on shaped brackets. One larger 2-light 6-pane casement window each side of the porch, and similar but slightly smaller windows to the upper floor in raised and gabled dormers. Deep eaves. Gable end stacks with clayware ventilation pots, the two at the centre combined in a single square stack. Shaped purlin ends project to carry the wide verge.  

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