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
3753
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
25/11/1998
Name of Property
Oerddwr-Isaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Beddgelert
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Oerddwr-Isaf
Easting
259079
Northing
345429
Street Side
W
Location
Located towards the SW boundary of the community on an elevated site high above the Aberglaslyn woods, approximately 2km SW of Nantmor; sited against a rocky outcrop 100m E of Plas Oeddwr; accessed from the main road via a long, steep track.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small vernacular cottage, probably of the early C17, but incorporating cruck trusses (one as a collar) probably reused from an earlier, timber-framed house on the site; the elevated location is suggestive of the site's early origins and the presence of a platform projection to the S would appear to support this.
Exterior
Small single-storey cottage of rubble construction with pronounced boulder foundations and irregular rubble gable parapets. Corrugated iron roof and tall end chimney to L gable; plain capping. Near-central entrance with deeply-recessed boarded door and stone lintel; flanking this are small, square windows with 4-pane late C19 glazing. Similar (unglazed) window to the R gable end, with deep inward splay.
Interior
Two-bay interior probably originally incorporating croglofft. Central collar truss of which one principal is a (probably re-used) cruck blade, as is the collar. Wide fireplace to chimney end (L) with flat oak bressummer; C20 partitioning.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a sub-medieval cottage with good vernacular character and probable earlier origins.
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