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
23474
Building Number
6
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Tanysgafell
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bethesda, Bangor
Locality
Tanysgafell
Easting
261384
Northing
366874
Street Side
Location
Situated on the B 4409 between Braichmelyn and Tregarth, the cottages are slightly set back from the road and are well screened by vegetation to the front.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as part of a small planned group of 3 paired cottages for workers at the nearby Penrhyn Slate Quarry, the cottages are likely to have been built between 1840 and 1850 and as such are typical of Edward Douglas-Pennant's considerable efforts to improve the Penrhyn Estate, to which he had succeeded in 1840.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 2.
Nos 5 & 6 Tanysgafell, Llandygai.
Symmetrical single-storey pair of 2-room cottages constructed of slate-hung rubblestone; slate roof. Central entrance to each cottage with open hip-roofed slate porch flanked by small hip-roofed canted bays with slate cills supported on carved slate brackets, each with 4-paned window to front; slate slab end chimney and ridge stack to each cottage, all with stepped capping and slate-sheeted bases. Continuous single-storey lean-to on rear. No.6 (left cottage) extended to left with C20 stained French window in front wall.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as essentially unaltered mid-C19 estate cottages of the simple 'vernacular revival' style particularly favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for its workers. These cottages are a particularly early example of the type and notable for being part of a tiny planned quarrymen's community.
Group Description
Nos 5 & 6 Tanysgafell, Llandygai
Symmetrical single-storey pair of 2-room cottages constructed of slate-hung rubblestone; slate roof. Central entrance to each cottage with open hip-roofed slate porch flanked by small hip-roofed canted bays with slate cills supported on carved slate brackets, each with 4-paned window to front; slate slab end chimney and ridge stack to each cottage, all with stepped capping and slate-sheeted bases. Continuous single-storey lean-to on rear. No.6 (left cottage) extended to left with C20 stained French window in front wall.
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