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
23702
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/07/2000
Date of Amendment
21/07/2000
Name of Property
Bod Owen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllyfni
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Penygroes
Easting
247205
Northing
353124
Street Side
SW
Location
Situated in a prominent position at the junction of Ffordd-y-Sir and Heol Buddog with gardens in front and the similarly detailed Arvon alongside, the highly decorated slate roof of the building forms a distinctive local landmark.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built as offices for the former Dorothea Slate Quarry in early C20, converted to domestic use later in century, the remarkable highly decorative slate roof was no doubt intended to display the quality and variety of slates the Company's quarry had on offer and to give an indication of the way in which they could be employed to best effect.
Exterior
Rendered walls, hipped slate roof, continued below the eaves and supported on timber brackets to centre; red ceramic ridge tiles, crested to the ends of the short ridge and hips; grey, green and purple slates forming diaper patterning to the middle of the roof with banded strips above and below, the whole having almost a Chinese appearance; rendered stacks in roof slope to left and right. Single storey. Front has slightly projecting central section defined by projection of roof below eaves. Central entrance; late C20 door flanked by late C20 bay windows retaining original early C20 slate lean-to canopies.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Forming a group with Arvon, which also retains its original form as Company office building, the buildings are an important relic of the slate industry in the town, notable for their virtuoso exploitation of the decorative properties of the material.
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