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
3767
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
28/05/1999
Name of Property
Ty Ucha'r Ffordd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanberis
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Pentre-castell
Easting
258690
Northing
359583
Street Side
SW
Location
Located on a natural rock outcrop on the south-west side of the A 4086 overlooking Pentre-castell and Dolbadarn Castle; there is a stone retaining wall directly in front of the cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 smallholder's/quarryworker's cottage. The cottage is shown on the 1838 Tithe Map, at which time the land on which it stood belonged to the (Royal) Victoria Hotel.
Exterior
Smallholder's/quarryworker's cottage. Single-storey 3-room plan. Painted rubblestone, formerly limewashed; slate roof. Late C20 top-hung windows to either side of prominent C20 gabled porch with glazed inner door to right; further window to left. Integral end stacks and ridge stack slightly to left of centre.
Interior
Much altered in late C20.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding its extensive C20 alterations, as an early C19 smallholder's/quarryworker's cottage built within the local vernacular tradition and strikingly located above Dolbadarn Castle.
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