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
23413
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Fairview
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Mynydd Llandygai
Easting
260019
Northing
365949
Street Side
E
Location
Located on the east side of Lon Y Grug, a minor no-through road continuing northwards from Llwybr Main along the scarp; remnants of small field system surround the cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as a smallholder/quarryman's cottage associated with the nearby Penrhyn Slate Quarry, the cottage is likely to have been built c1850 and as such is typical of Edward Douglas-Pennant's considerable efforts to improve the Penrhyn Estate, to which he had succeeded in 1840; the cottage is a forerunner of the same estate's planned quarry community at Mynydd Llandygai.
Exterior
Single-storey 2-room plan, aligned roughly north-south. Regularly coursed rubblestone with roughcast gable ends; slate roof with slate-coped verges. Front has small hip-roofed canted bay windows with slate cills supported on carved slate brackets to either side of roughly central porch with similar roof; partly external end stacks with tall purple brick shafts. Full-length catslide outshut at rear.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as an essentially unaltered mid-C19 smallholder's/quarryman's cottage of the simple 'vernacular revival' style particularly favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for its workers in the decades immediately after c1850, a style more generally found in the less remote lowland parts of Llandygai.
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