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
22644
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999
Name of Property
Ddol
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanddeiniolen
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Bethel
Easting
251982
Northing
364928
Street Side
SE
Location
Situated in a large yard area with a modern bungalow to the north at the end of a short track running off the south-east side of the B4366, approximately 0.5km south-west of Bethel.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on the 1838 Tithe Map, the cottage is likely to have been built as part of a smallholding in the early C19; the form of the section of building immediately to the right of the cottage suggests that this part may once have been used as a smithy. The former cowhouse to the left of the cottage latterly served as an office.
Exterior
Cottage and attached outbuildings. Long single-storey rectangular plan, aligned roughly east-west with 2-room cottage in centre of main range and equal-height outbuildings attached to each end, left formerly a cowhouse and right possibly once a smithy; to right again is a former cowhouse, lower and following a slight curve. Limewashed irregularly coursed rubblestone; grouted graded slate roof to cottage with larger slates to outbuildings. Cottage has 4-paned sash window with slate cill on either side of offset boarded door; integral end stacks with slate drips at junctions with outbuildings, left of which has roughly central boarded door with small 4-paned sash to right, right outbuilding with large C20 window on left, boarded double doors to right and 3 small C19 rooflights near ridge. Lower, former cowhouse to right has boarded doors on left and right, latter with a window immediately to right; further window to centre.
Interior
Cottage has large room on left with short low screen immediately to left of entrance and large chimney breast with cast-iron fire surround, mantleshelf and C20 grate; boarded ceiling has base of A-frame truss visible to centre. Croglofft over small right room which also has boarded ceiling; small infilled fireplace. Hearth in probable former smithy shares stack serving right room of cottage. Cowhouse on right has 3-bay roof with 2 A-frame trusses.
Reason for designation
Included as an unspoilt early C19 smallholder's cottage with attached in-line outbuildings, the extent of which suggests that the holding was a large and reasonably prosperous one as would be expected from its lowland setting.
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