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
23374
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Arfryn, Argoed & Coed llys
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Penrhyn Park
Easting
260309
Northing
372500
Street Side
Location
Located at the south-eastern corner of the drying ground immediately to the north of the former kitchen garden to Penrhyn Castle; iron horizontal-railed enclosure to garden area on west.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A building is shown on this site on a map of the Penrhyn Estate in 1804 and it may at that time have served as a gardener's cottage. Considerably extended or rebuilt c1840 the present building served as the estate laundry in the later C19, although presumably also retaining a domestic function at the same time. It is now divided into 3 cottages.
Exterior
2-storey Classical style building with main range, partly of double-depth plan, aligned north-south, employing a combination of uncoursed and regularly coursed and dressed pink sandstone blocks with tooled ashlar quoins, the uncoursed stonework probably originally rendered; shallow-pitched hipped slate roof. West elevation virtually entirely fenestrated with irregularly-spaced sash windows of varying sizes (some horned) in quoined surrounds to both floors; entrances to left in angle with slight projection and to far right through fully glazed double doors with decorative overlight; 3 ridge stacks, centre rendered, outer of purple brick. Further sash windows on each floor of right return and also to south wall of double-depth section. Rear (east) elevation has 12- and 16-paned 2-light casements and one 18-paned 3-light casement window.
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. The building is typical of the plain Classical style favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for much of its building work c1840.
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