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.
Date of Designation
21/07/2000
Date of Amendment
21/07/2000
Name of Property
Ty Capel
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Located on the eastern side of the village street, from which it is set back, with the Independent Chapel it serves directly adjacent.
History
Not shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the house appears to have been constructed as a manse for the adjacent chapel when it was rebuilt c1860.
Exterior
Regularly coursed and dressed granite blocks, rendered to gable ends; slate roof with rendered integral end stacks. 2 storeys. 3-window front; 4-paned sashes directly below eaves and C20 windows to either side of central entrance (C20 half-glazed door), ground-floor windows and doorway all with stone lintels. Single-storey lean-to on right gable end with small 4-paned sash window to front and integral stack to side.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as an essentially unaltered mid-C19 manse built to serve the contemporary chapel, with which it forms a group as the nucleus of a typical upland hamlet in the slate quarrying landscape.
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