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
3776
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
No.3 Cilgant (The Crescent)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Llandwrog
Easting
245102
Northing
356109
Street Side
Location
Situated immediately to north of church in centre of village; full-length rubblestone wall with iron gates to small front gardens follows concave curve of road to front.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built between 1850 and 1860 as part of the third Lord Newborough's replanning of Llandwrog as an estate village.
Exterior
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly striking piece of estate village planning, using a consistent Picturesque architectural vocabulary and unusual in its choice of the crescent shape for buildings of this modest scale. Llandwrog is among the best-preserved Victorian estate villages in this part of Wales.
Group Description
Nos. 1-5 Cilgant (The Crescent) (consec)
Terrace of village cottages. Single-storey range of cottages (Nos.2-4 inclusive) with 2-storey gable-fronted cottages (Nos.1 & 5) at each end, the whole terrace following the curve of the village street. Roughly coursed rubblestone with reddish brown brick window dressings, dripmoulds (over slate lintels) and door arches; slate roof. 8-window front, including to ends; centre range with pairs of windows alternating with 3 segmental-headed entrances plus further windows to left and right of left and right entrances respectively, windows all now C20 but in original openings with dripmoulds; doors recessed and half-glazed. Windows to end cottages similar but larger on ground floor; C20 half-glazed doors to inner returns. 4 prominent reddish brown brick ridge stacks with toothed paired and rebated shafts, moulded capping and collection of mainly yellow chimney pots, 2 to centre range and one to each end cottage. Various C20 additions at rear, including raking and box dormers to centre range. No.1 ( at left end) is now painted, on stonework to left return and over render to front.
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