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
22638
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999
Name of Property
Pen-y-Clip
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanddeiniolen
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Fachwen
Easting
256898
Northing
361992
Street Side
Location
Situated at western end of Fachwen on wooded slope immediately by the side of the Brynrefail to Dinorwic Road on the north side of Llyn Padarn; there is a large rock outcrop immediately behind the cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Not shown on the 1838 Tithe Map, the cottage is likely to have been built before 1850, Fachwen having been purchased by the Vaynol Estate in 1840 as a convenient place in which to establish its by then preferred pattern of quarrymen's cottages without land situated close to the Dinorwic Quarry. As part of this process, the Estate in c1842 divided Fachwen up into about 30 holdings on which the quarrymen were allowed to build individual cottages under Estate control. The cottage appears to be of 2 distinct phases, the earlier part to the left and of 2-room plan with integral end stacks, the right room with no stack and possibly originally an outbuilding.
Exterior
Single-storey 3-room plan, aligned roughly east-west. Irregularly coursed rubblestone with buttered pointing; slate roof. Front has tall C20 6-paned casements to left on either side of central boarded door and another similar but shorter 6-paned window to right, the 2 parts separated by straight joint and ridge stack which, like the integral end stack to left, is rendered.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved example of the small quarryman's cottage without land typical of the post-1840 phase of Vaynol Estate-authorised settlement associated with Thomas Assheton Smith's continued development of the Dinorwic Slate Quarry; Fachwen is a particularly important survival from this process of landowner-controlled settlement.
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