4822

 

II  

Designated  

30/11/1966  

25/02/2005  

Bwlch y Maen - Former Co-operative shop  

 

Gwynedd  

Maentwrog  

 

Maentwrog  

266469  

340550  

 

Set along the W side of Bull Street (A496) at the N end of the village of Maentwrog; in alignment and directly S of The Grapes Hotel.  

Commercial  

 

Early C19 house and shop, dated 1834 and one of a series of a terrace of houses built on a plot of land named as Glan William in the tithe apportionment of the parish, 1840; owned by Maria Shaw and occupied by William Jones Esq. William Gruffyd Oakeley (1790-1835) was only 21 when he inherited the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate and set about an ambitious programme of improving the estate. This entailed new building in the village of Maentwrog and rebuilding or improving the existing buildings. In order to do so he opened a quarry near Gelli Grin from which was quarried the large lengths of brown stone present in so many of the village buildings. Offered up for sale in the auction of the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate, 1910, in Lot 12 'The Picturesque Rural Village of Maentwrog'. The property was described as Shop House and Premises, called 'Shop Isaf', occupied by Mr Thomas Roberts, for an annual rent of £20-0s-0d(£20.00).  

Two storey house, formerly a shop, built in the Georgian tradition which characterised the work of the estate at this period. Coursed stone masonry including massive stone lintel across the ground floor openings. Slate roof with overhanging eaves; large rectangular end stacks with dripstones and capping. The house may have originally been a pair of 2 window houses with the doorways offset to R (N); the ground floor has 2 large, 2-pane windows with one doorway between under a plain overlight and another doorway to R (N) end under an overlight with glazing bars. There are 2 first floor 12-pane hornless sash windows offset to the L of the doorways and set under the eaves; between the windows is an insurance plaque and an inscribed stone which bears the date: 1834. Basement storey to rear retains small paned casement windows.  

The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).  

Listed, notwithstanding some later alterations, as an early C19 shop and accommodation that forms an integral component of a well-preserved terrace at the centre of the estate village of Maentwrog.