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
23461
Building Number
9
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Rose Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Llandygai
Easting
259933
Northing
370953
Street Side
Location
Situated immediately to the north-east of No.7 on the road towards the church; low rubblestone wall to roadside largely concealed by privet hedge is breached by wide vehicular access.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in the 1840s as part of the 'model' village established by Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant after he acquired the Penrhyn Estate in 1840.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 2.
Nos.8 & 9 (Rose Cottage), Llandygai.
Pair of single-storey and attic Estate cottages in mildly Picturesque style forming T-plan. Roughcast rubblestone; slate roof with slightly overhanging verges and carved purlin ends. Symmetrical composition of 1:1:1 bays, central bay taking the form of a very slightly projecting gable with renewed windows in original openings on both floors; 3-light windows, left with leaded latticed lights, on ground floor of flanking ranges. Entrances through 6-panel doors to gable ends, left under open lean-to porch, right under gabled timber porch; left gable end has 6-paned sash window to left of porch and small loft hatch. Integral end stacks have stone bases and paired diagonal brick shafts with stepped capping. Full-length lean-to at rear links to single-storey gabled outbuildings with brick end stack, one to each cottage.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as one of an essentially unaltered pair of cottages with garden outbuilding forming an integral part of this important planned early Victorian estate village. One of the best-preserved such villages in this part of Wales from this period and notable for its distinctive picturesque architectural character.
Group value with No.7 immediately to the south-west and the adjoining No.8.
Group Description
Nos.8 & 9 (Rose Cottage), Llandygai
Pair of single-storey and attic Estate cottages in mildly Picturesque style forming T-plan. Roughcast rubblestone; slate roof with slightly overhanging verges and carved purlin ends. Symmetrical composition of 1:1:1 bays, central bay taking the form of a very slightly projecting gable with renewed windows in original openings on both floors; 3-light windows, left with leaded latticed lights, on ground floor of flanking ranges. Entrances through 6-panel doors to gable ends, left under open lean-to porch, right under gabled timber porch; left gable end has 6-paned sash window to left of porch and small loft hatch. Integral end stacks have stone bases and paired diagonal brick shafts with stepped capping. Full-length lean-to at rear links to single-storey gabled outbuildings with brick end stack, one to each cottage.
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