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
24703
Building Number
6
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2001
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Ivy House
Address
6 Station Road (Ty'n Ddol)
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanuwchllyn
Town
Bala
Locality
Llanuwchllyn
Easting
287841
Northing
329895
Street Side
SE
Location
On the street-line in the centre of the village.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Victorian terrace of workers' cottages, probably erected c1870. The Bala to Dolgellau railway, which included a station at Llanuwchllyn, opened in August 1868 and this and other terraces in Llanuwchllyn are representative of its impact on the village. The buff-coloured stock bricks used for the chimneys were doubtless brought in by rail.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 4.
Nos. 5-8 Station Road (consec).
Two-storey terrace of four cottages; of roughly-coursed slatestone rubble construction with continuous, medium -pitched slate roof and 3 shared chimneys of buff stock brick, these with oversailing cornice bands. Of these cottages, nos 5, 7 and 8 are of single-window type and no 6 has 2 windows. Each cottage has a 6-pane timber-framed windows with wrought iron opening lights to the ground floor and 3-pane upper floor windows, with an additional 2-pane window above the entrance to no 6. Original vertically-projecting panelled doors with 2-pane overlights to all save no 8; this with out-of-character modern part-glazed door.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a second-half C19 terrace retaining good original external character.
Group Description
Nos 5-8 Station Road (consec)
Two-storey terrace of four cottages; of coursed and squared local slatestone construction with continuous, medium-pitched slate roof and 3 shared chimneys of buff stock brick; these with oversailing cornice bands. Of the cottages, nos 5, 7 and 8 are of single-window type and no 6 has 2 windows. Each cottage has 6-pane timber-framed windows with wrought iron opening lights to the ground floor and 3-pane upper-floor windows, with an additional 2-pane window above the entrance to no 6. Original vertically-projecting panelled doors with 2-pane overlights to all save no 8; this with out-of-character modern part-glazed door.
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