Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
No.1,,B 4409,Tyn lon,,,
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Situated in roadside position on south side of B 4409 approximately 0.5km east of Felin-hen; low rubblestone wall in front with decorative iron gates.
History
Built c1850 as part of Edward Douglas-Pennant's considerable efforts to improve the Penrhyn Estate, to which he had succeeded in 1840. Colonel Douglas-Pennant first gave notice to his tenants of his intention to improve through his agent, James Wyatt's address "To the Farming Tenantry of the Penrhyn Estate", printed in 1843.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of essentially unaltered mid-C19 small estate cottages of the simple 'vernacular revival' style particularly favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for its workers in the decades immediately after c1850.
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