22912

 

II  

Designated  

07/03/2000  

07/03/2000  

Bron Derw  

 

Gwynedd  

Aber  

 

Abergwyngregyn  

265616  

372643  

 

Stands in centre of village just beyond road junction, with Pen y mwd just behind; front wall of projecting gable sitting directly on road has low rubblestone boundary wall on either side, gate to Bron Derw with square dressed stone piers.  

Domestic  

 

Not shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey 25" map of the area, the cottages were probably built in the 1890s as part of the continuing development of Abergwyngregyn as a Penrhyn Estate village at this time, a period when the Estate was particularly active in providing new housing for its rural workforce. The remodelling of Abergwyngregyn by the Estate had begun c.1840 as part of its recasting as a "Picturesque" village en route to the increasingly popular tourist destination of Aber Falls.  

 

Interior not inspected at time of Survey.  

Included as essentially unaltered late Victorian workers' housing forming a significant and distinctive component within the important C19 planned picturesque Penrhyn Estate village of Abergwyngregyn. The style of the cottages is typical of much of the estate's late C19 phase of workers' housing, that is of strong composition, bold in its detailing and making good use, particularly in the slate hanging, of the most abundant and distinctive local material.  

Tan-y-bryn & Bron Derw, Abergwyngregyn. Pair of deliberately asymmetrical estate cottages forming a rough L-plan, comprising long range roughly parallel with road (Bron Derw) and projecting gabled range with short continuation of long range to left (Tan-y-bryn); the whole built in the mild Gothic style adopted by the estate for much of its village building, although in this case also showing an awareness of the emerging Arts and Crafts movement. Snecked rubblestone with large slate-stone lintels; slate hung on first floor save for short continuation of long range to Tan-y-bryn; slate roofs with bargeboards to overhanging verges, those to gable ends of Tan-y-bryn also with decorative king-post trusses to apexes. Bron Derw has wide gabled dormer breaking eaves to right with inset 2-light 12-paned window directly above similar 3-light window on ground floor; roughly central C20 half-glazed door under bracketed lean-to hood in angle with slightly projecting lean-to break on left, which has 2-light 12-paned window on ground floor and 3-light flat-roofed dormer with pediment to centre directly above; integral end stack to right has rendered base and 2 diagonal brownish brick shafts with stepped capping; similar stack on left behind ridge has 3 diagonal shafts. Tan-y-bryn has two 2-light 12-paned casements centrally placed on first floor of projecting gable with 2- and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars to left and right respectively of narrow chamfered rectangular window on ground floor; hip-roofed largely glazed porch to left return in angle with short continuation of long range, which has integral stack with paired diagonal shafts and two 2-light 12-paned windows on first floor of left gable end; prominent stack with 3 clustered diagonal shafts in roof slope to right return of gabled range.