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
5224
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/1990
Date of Amendment
14/05/1998
Name of Property
Plas Brondanw Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfrothen
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Plas Brondanw
Easting
261648
Northing
342297
Street Side
Location
Situated immediately to NE of Plas Brondanw to which it is linked by gate-piers; set end on to the slope with NW elevation overlooking terraced gardens.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Rectangular gabled block, formerly part of the unit-planned Plas Brondanw complex and now three cottages. The house was long in the posession of the Williams family; William Williams of Plas Brondanw (d.1778) was 'the first to introduce sea banks to this part of Wales.' The house was inherited in 1908 by the renowned architect and conservationist (Sir) Clough Williams-Ellis, (creator of Portmeirion) and henceforth became his home. Together with his wife Amabel (Strachey) he laid out the important gardens and, over a number of decades erected or remodelled numerous buildings, follies and features around the Brondanw estate and the village of Garreg. This block, apparently always detatched from the main house, was altered in the late C19 and again in the C20 by Clough Williams-Ellis.
Exterior
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of the important Plas Brondanw complex, the home of the celebrated architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.
Group value with other listed items at Plas Brondanw.
Group Description
Nos 1-3 Plas Brondanw Cottages
Rectangular gabled block of 2 stories with attic and raised ground floor to garden side; of rubble construction with shallow-pitched slate roof and stepped gable parapets. Plain central chimney with weather-coursing. Symmetrical W gable (facing gardens) with wooden Tuscan doorcase applied decoratively to the ground-floor centre; moulded pediment and a narrow 8-pane window within. In front of the doorcase is a raised platform with flights of stone steps leading to the garden level to R and L; arched recess below. Flanking this are two recessed 16-pane sash windows to both floors, all in reduced openings. In the gable apex, a small 12-pane sash with segmental niche above. Modern 12-pane windows to N side with 15-pane glazed door to R; all openings are altered. Similar door and windows to E gable and to ground-floor of S side with, on the first floor, a 9-pane steel-framed, arched-headed window (mid C20).
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