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
3772
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
No.1 Tai'r Eglwys (Church Cottages)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Llandwrog
Easting
245075
Northing
356081
Street Side
Location
Situated immediately to north-west of St Twrog's Church in centre of village with Nos.1-5 Cilgant adjoining; low rubblestone wall with decorated iron gates defines front gardens.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1850 as part of the third Lord Newborough's replanning of Llandwrog as an estate village. Extensive C20 additions and alterations to rear.
Exterior
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of Picturesque cottages forming a symmetrical grouping which is an integral part of this important planned Victorian estate village, one of the best-preserved such villages in this part of Wales from this period.
Group Description
Nos. 1 & 2 Tai'r Eglwys (Church Cottages)
Pair of cottages. Picturesque Gothic style building comprising central single-storey range flanked by equal-height gabled projections with windows to upper floors. Irregularly coursed rubblestone with large quoins (rendered to gabled part of No.2) and reddish brown brick window dressings and dripmoulds above slate lintels; slate roof with projecting verges and carved purlin ends exposed to gables. 1:2:1 bays, windows all originally 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed casements, of smaller proportion to first floor of gables, now replaced in plastic to No.2; entrances to inner return of each gable, outer returns without openings. Tall ridge stack to centre has toothed paired and rebated shafts with moulded capping and chimney pots; similar ridge stack to right at junction with gabled projection of No.2 and there was probably originally an identical stack in corresponding position to No.1. Rooflight to outer roof slope of projecting gable to No.1 and another in rear roof slope of main range to No.2. C20 lean-to addition attached to rear of gabled range of No.1, which has large C20 window on first floor. C20 flat-roofed addition to rear of central range with triangular window above to roof slope of No.2 continues across rear gable of No.2.
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