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
22733
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/12/1999
Date of Amendment
06/12/1999
Name of Property
Gwynfa Bach
Address
2 Hillsborough Terrace
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Corris
Town
Machynlleth
Locality
Corris Uchaf
Easting
274065
Northing
308885
Street Side
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.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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.
Interior
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.
Group Description
Nos 1-10 Hillsborough Terrace, Corris Uchaf
A row of 10 workers' cottages, built with rubble stonework, whitewashed to the front, and slate roofs. The cottages are built in a straight line, and each consists of a single 2-storey bay, with a lateral framed and boarded door, and 16-pane sash windows to ground and first floors. Transverse stone stacks on party walls. Various alterations at the rear.
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