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
23471
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
19/05/2003
Name of Property
3 Tyddyn Iolyn
Address
3 Tyddyn Iolyn
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Glasinfryn
Easting
260077
Northing
369732
Street Side
W
Location
Located on west side of former London to Holyhead Road, which is now by-passed by the present A 5 and serves as a minor gated road between the A 5 and Llandygai; low rubblestone boundary wall with stone-on-edge coping in front; No.1 to south.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1850 as part of Edward Douglas-Pennant''s considerable efforts to improve the Penrhyn Estate, to which he had succeeded in 1840. Colonel Douglas-Pennant first gave notice to his tenants of his intention to improve through his agent, James Wyatt''s address "To the Farming Tenantry of the Penrhyn Estate", printed in 1843.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 2 & 3 Tyddyn Iolyn, Lon Isaf, Llandygai.
Pair of 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 quoins and slate-stone voussoirs; large slate roof with deep overhanging verges and carved purlin ends. Symmetrical front of 1:2:1 bays, each cottage consisting of gabled wing and half of central range; original window openings with slightly cambered heads and slate cills, of 3 lights to gables and 2 lights to centre, each light of 6 panes, windows to left cottage (No.3) replaced in plastic; narrow ventilation slit to apex of each gable. Entrances through narrow gabled porches to returns of gabled wings, each of which has prominent ridge stack with stone base and twin diagonal brick shafts with stepped capping. 2 C20 rooflights in outer roof slope of left gabled wing and C20 flat-roofed addition at rear of No.2.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a typically characteristic mid-C19 pair of estate workers'' cottages in the simple ''vernacular revival'' style particularly favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for its workers in the decades immediately after c1850.
Group Description
Nos 2 & 3 Lon Isaf, Llandygai
Pair of 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 quoins and slate-stone voussoirs; large slate roof with deep overhanging verges and carved purlin ends. Symmetrical front of 1:2:1 bays, each cottage consisting of gabled wing and half of central range; original window openings with slightly cambered heads and slate cills, of 3 lights to gables and 2 lights to centre, each light of 6 panes, windows to left cottage (No.3) replaced in plastic; narrow ventilation slit to apex of each gable. Entrances through narrow gabled porches to returns of gabled wings, each of which has prominent ridge stack with stone base and twin diagonal brick shafts with stepped capping. 2 C20 rooflights in outer roof slope of left gabled wing and C20 flat-roofed addition at rear of No.2.
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