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
23372
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Maes-y-Gerddi
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Penrhyn Park
Easting
260304
Northing
372424
Street Side
Location
Situated on the eastern side of the former kitchen garden to Penrhyn Castle, the garden wall itself is breached by the building; a straight tarmac drive leads to the western entrance to the walled garden.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Former bothy in the old kitchen garden of Penrhyn Castle. Map evidence shows that the building was erected at a date between 1889 and 1914. Stylistically, the most likely date of erection is in the 1890s. It is now divided into 2 cottages.
Exterior
2-storey building in simple Picturesque vernacular style, with main range aligned north-south and gabled range projecting to west on north (left). Rendered ground floor with exposed Anglesey limestone stonework around windows and door; slate hung to first floor; slate roof with deep overhanging verges. Front (west) elevation has 2 timber cross-windows with glazing bars in quoined surrounds with slate cills on ground floor of gable with three 2-light casements above, the centre with overlight creating a stepped effect. Main range has 3 windows with transoms (side-hung casements in 4 panes below and 6 fixed panes above) in stonework panel to right of 6-panel door (upper panels glazed) under lean-to canopy in angle with gable. 2-light window with lean-to roof just breaking eaves above entrance with further 2-light window in gabled dormer to right. Integral end stack to right and ridge stack to left at junction with gable, both with paired diagonal purple brick shafts; further stack with 3 diagonal shafts behind latter.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a well-preserved set of estate buildings immediately adjacent to the former kitchen garden of Penrhyn Castle with which it has strong group value. Maes-y-Gerddi is typical of the many well-constructed and handomely-detailed cottages and houses the Penrhyn Estate was erecting at the end of the C19.
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