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
4437
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1951
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Snowdon Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Locality
Tremadog
Easting
256305
Northing
339955
Street Side
E
Location
In its own grounds set back from the road at the S end of Tremadog, opposite Capel Peniel.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in the 1870s or 1880s, first mentioned in 1886 and shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey, when it was known as Gorphwysfa. The house was the birthplace of T.E Lawrence (1886-1935), 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-window house in mildly Gothic style, of snecked rock-faced stone, slate roof on overhanging boarded eaves, stone end stacks, and stone stack to an integral rear wing. It has a central half-glazed timber-framed porch with replacement half-glazed door under an original overlight, and inside a replacement half-glazed door with similar but original side panels. The lower storey has canted bay windows with 2-pane margin-lit sashes. In the upper storey the outer windows have 2-pane margin-lit sash windows carried above the eaves under half-hipped roofs with tile finials and cresting. The central window is similar but narrower and under a gable with pendant finial. In the R gable end is a narrow 2-pane horned sash window lower L.
The offset rear wing is slightly set back from the R gable end, and has 2-pane margin-lit horned sashes in each storey. The opposite 4-window side wall of the wing has, in the lower storey 4-pane sash windows on the L side and 2-pane on the R side, whereas in the upper storey are three 4-pane sash windows and a 2-pane sash window to the R. A C20 extension is further behind.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed primarily for its association with Lawrence of Arabia and as a late C19 suburban house retaining original character and good facade detail.
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