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
23678
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/07/2000
Date of Amendment
21/07/2000
Name of Property
Bwthyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllyfni
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Nantlle
Easting
254183
Northing
353437
Street Side
S
Location
Located on the south side of the B 4418 at the foot of a rock face directly opposite the Chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the cottages were built before 1836 to house workers at the nearby copper mine (now disused and ruinous), which was already working in the 1790s. It appears from the plan-form of the building and the existence of garden enclosures that the cottages were constructed as family rather than barrack accommodation. Another row of cottages, now a roofless ruin, stands a little closer to the rock face to the south-west.
Exterior
Row of 3 copper miners' cottages. Roughly coursed rubblestone, painted to left part; large graded slate roof. Single storey. Long rectangular plan consisting of 3 cottages, the right now abandoned. Mid-C19 plate glass sashes in original openings, once 6 (now 5) in total, to either side of regularly spaced plank doors; integral end stacks and 2 ridge stacks, all with slate drips, the ridge stacks shared between cottages. The right cottage has widened entrance to front in place of the original doorway and right window. The left and centre cottages retain their original drystone-walled garden enclosures to the front.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of purpose-built early C19 copper mine workers' cottages, which form a good group with the roughly contemporary chapel and house (Glanrafon) opposite.
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