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
23420
Building Number
5
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
5 Bryn Eglwys
Address
5 Bryn Eglwys
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bethesda
Locality
Easting
260933
Northing
366320
Street Side
Location
Located on south side of road at east end of Bryn Eglwys where it turns sharply to south-west; low rubblestone wall in front, partly removed at left end to create vehicular access and to middle for car parking; No.5 has slate slab fencing to sides.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1850 as part of a small planned community for workers at the nearby Penrhyn Slate Quarry, the cottages are typical of Edward Douglas-Pennant's considerable efforts to improve the Penrhyn Estate, to which he had succeeded in 1840. The Bryn Eglwys cottages appear to be slightly earlier than St Anne's Church, rebuilt here by the estate in 1865 after the original church of 1813 had been submerged by new workings at the quarry.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 3.
Nos 5, 6 & & Bryn Eglwys, Llandygai.
Symmetrically composed group of 3 single-storey cottages in simple 'vernacular revival' style with attics to gabled wings projecting on either side of lower central range. Roughly coursed rubblestone with slate-stone lintels; slate roof with overhanging verges and carved purlin ends. Symmetrical front of 1:3:1 bays, gables having 3-light windows on ground floor and 2-light windows above; original window openings with C20 windows flank central entrance to central range (No.6), now with C20 glazed door; entrances to Nos.5 & 7 through slate slab gabled porches to outer returns. Prominent red brick ridge stacks with stepped capping to left and right of central range with shorter integral stacks to rear gable ends of gabled ranges.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a formally planned group of 3 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; group value with similar contemporary cottages at Bryn Eglwys, a good example of a small planned quarry community of the mid-C19.
Group Description
Nos 5, 6 & & Bryn Eglwys, Llandygai
Symmetrically composed group of 3 single-storey cottages in simple 'vernacular revival' style with attics to gabled wings projecting on either side of lower central range. Roughly coursed rubblestone with slate-stone lintels; slate roof with overhanging verges and carved purlin ends. Symmetrical front of 1:3:1 bays, gables having 3-light windows on ground floor and 2-light windows above; original window openings with C20 windows flank central entrance to central range (No.6), now with C20 glazed door; entrances to Nos.5 & 7 through slate slab gabled porches to outer returns. Prominent red brick ridge stacks with stepped capping to left and right of central range with shorter integral stacks to rear gable ends of gabled ranges.
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