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
22934
Building Number
7&8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/03/2000
Date of Amendment
09/03/2000
Name of Property
Tan-y-lon
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllechid
Town
Bangor
Locality
Tan-y-lon
Easting
261943
Northing
371136
Street Side
Location
Located on the north-west side of the road at Tan-y-lon; rubblestone wall to front with slate-on-edge coping and iron pedestrian gates.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as part of the small planned settlement of Tan-y-lon for workers on one of the nearby Penrhyn Estate farms or pehaps given its proximity, the park itself. The cottages are likely to have been constructed c1850: as such they are typical of Edward Douglas-Pennant's considerable efforts to improve the estate, to which he had succeeded in 1840.
Exterior
Symmetrical single-storey pair of 2-room cottages with lofts in the characteristic 'vernacular revival' style adopted by the Penrhyn Estate at this time. Constructed of coursed rubblestone with voussoirs to slightly cambered window and door heads on front elevation, roughcast to gable ends; slate roof with overhanging verges and carved purlin ends. Central entrance to each cottage flanked by handed 2- and 3-light 12- and 18-paned windows respectively with slate cills, those to left cottage (No.7) with glazing bars gone; both cottages with boarded doors under bracketed lean-to hoods; integral end stacks and shared ridge stack to centre, left and ridge stacks roughcast. Loft windows to gable ends and single-storey lean-tos behind.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as essentially unaltered mid-C19 estate cottages of the simple 'vernacular revival' style particularly favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for its workers, both in the slate quarries and elsewhere. These cottages are absolutely characteristic of their type.
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