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
3223
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
13/10/1966  
Date of Amendment
30/05/1996  
Name of Property
Tan-yr-Yw  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Trefriw  
Town
Trefriw  
Locality
 
Easting
278107  
Northing
363211  
Street Side
W  
Location
On the street line, opposite the church of St. Mary.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Late C17 cottage, substantially rebuilt in the early C19. The birthplace and home of Dafydd Jones (1708-85), bard, printer and collector of early Welsh manuscripts, who set up his printing press here before transferring it to Pwll-Isaf. He was also one of the founder members of the Honourable Society of Cymrodorion.  

Exterior
2-storey cottage of roughcast rubble with modern slate roof and plain end chimneys. Near-symmetrical 2 window front with recessed, C20 boarded and studded door to central entrance. 12-pane C19 recessed sash windows and to the R, between ground and first- floor levels, a recessed slate plaque with Welsh commemorative inscription.  

Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey (January 1996), though is said to retain a beamed ceiling and inglenook fireplace to the principal ground floor room, as well as a post-and-panel partition.  

Reason for designation
Included for its well preserved early C19 facade and for its historic and literary associations.  

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