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
3782
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
No.2 Tai'r Ysgol (School Cottages)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Llandwrog
Easting
245117
Northing
356014
Street Side
Location
Located in the centre of the village to the south of St Twrog's Church with Bwthyn Rhosyn (Rose Cottage) directly opposite; rubblestone wall in front defines front gardens.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the cottages were built 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 group of 3 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 1-3 Tai'r Ysgol (School Cottages) (consec)
Group of 3 attached single-storey cottages with upper floor to central projection (No.2). Picturesque Gothic style typical of the earlier estate buildings in the village. Uncoursed rubblestone with reddish brown brick window heads, dripmoulds and stacks; slate roof with hipped ends. 2:3:2 bays, centre forming equal-height gabled projection. Original 3-light timber mullioned and transomed windows to right bays (No.3), others replaced in C20 but all retaining C19 cambered heads; central boarded door to No.2 with 2-light window above; entrances to Nos.1 & 3 on returns through cambered doorways in set-back screen walls with porches behind; short ridge stacks with moulded capping and chimney pots to either side of central projection. No.1 has large box dormer to rear.
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