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
4904
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/04/1951
Date of Amendment
31/01/1995
Name of Property
1 St George's Terrace
Address
1 St George's Terrace
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Barmouth
Town
Locality
Old Barmouth
Easting
261546
Northing
315652
Street Side
Location
Located towards the top of the old town on a raised, parapetted terrace.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The terrace forms two of the formerly 13 St. George's Guild Cottages which formerly served a community founded by John Ruskin. From 1871 Ruskin published his socialist theories in a series of letters - the Fors Clavigera - which were addressed to 'the working men of England'. In that year he founded the Guild of St. George, 'a society established to carry out certain charitable acts', and the community at Barmouth was his first social experiment. It was made possible by the donation in 1874 of the land and cottages by Mrs Talbot of Tyn-y-Fynnon, a friend of Ruskin's and a sympathiser with his beliefs.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Included despite modernisation as having belonged to Ruskin's guild and consequently of considerable socio-historic interest.
Group Description
Nos 1 and 2 (plus adjoining Ty Bach) St George's Terrace, Old Barmouth, Barmouth.
A late C18/early C19 terrace of 2 cottages with mid Victorian alterations. Single storey plus attic; of rubble with slate roof. Gable-end stack to L and a further chimney at intersection between nos 1 and 2, both with plain capping and weather coursing. The L cottage has a modern recessed window to the L of a recessed part-glazed modern door. The cottage to the R (no 2) has central entrance with door as before and flanking modern windows of 2-pane casement type. 3 wide slate-hung triangular dormers, irregularly spaced with one to no 1 and two to no 2; moulded bargeboards and modern windows as before. Set back and adjoining no 1 to the L, a C19 rubble Ty Bach with plain gabled, slated roof.
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