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
22976
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/03/2000
Date of Amendment
09/03/2000
Name of Property
Tan-yr-allt Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllechid
Town
Bangor
Locality
Tan-yr-allt
Easting
262758
Northing
371490
Street Side
Location
Located on the south-east side of the former Bangor-Conwy road (now superseded by the A 55 running parallel to the north-west) between Tan-y-lon and Tai'r-meibion; remains of low rubblestone wall to front with individual cottages separated by hedge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built for farm labourers on one of the nearby Penrhyn Estate farms, 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
Interior
Cottage retains original layout of 2 heated rooms to ground floor. Full loft, but possibly a modification of the original arrangement.
Reason for designation
Included as one of a pair of 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.
Group Description
Nos 1 & 2 Tan-yr-allt Cottages, Llanllechid Community.
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, rendered to gable ends; slate roof with 2 small modern roof lights to front and rear. Central entrance to each cottage flanked by handed 2- and 3-light 12- and 18-paned windows respectively with slate cills; right cottage (No.1) with C20 panelled door, left (No.2) with boarded door; integral end stacks and shared ridge stack to centre, all rendered and with stepped capping. C20 flat-roofed extension behind continuing beyond gable end of each cottage.
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