Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
06/12/1999
Date of Amendment
06/12/1999
Name of Property
Gwynfa Bach
Address
2 Hillsborough Terrace
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
The row of 10 cottages lies at the foot of the hill and on a bank set back from the main road at the N end of the village.
History
Hillsborough Terrace is a terrace of speculatively built cottages, promoted by three companies, the Great Welsh Union Slate Co, 1857, the Union Slate Company, 1859, and the British Slate Company, 1860, and probably aimed at workers at Ty'n-y-berth Quarry.
Exterior
Has a diagonally boarded panelled door and large inserted 12-paned windows with heavy glazing bars to the ground floor. The cottage is now amalgamated with No 3, which has a similar large window on the ground floor.
Reason for designation
Included as an excellent example of good quality industrial workers cottages for workers in the slate industry, built at the high point of the success of the industry in the later C19. One of the best such terraces extant in this area.
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