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
5867
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/07/1992
Date of Amendment
17/07/1992
Name of Property
8 Rhiw Fach Terrace
Address
8 Rhiw Fach Terrace
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Bro Machno
Town
Locality
Cwm Penmachno
Easting
275189
Northing
347378
Street Side
Location
At right angles to Glanaber Terrace, facing SE.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terrace of 10 houses built for slate quarry workers. Probably built c1870.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for special interest as largely unaltered example of industrial workers' housing adjacent to former quarries.
Group Description
Nos 1 to 10 Rhiw Fach Terrace, Cwm Penmachno, Bro Machno Community
Squared dark stone rubble, alternating with buff stone in quoins. Slate roofs; rectangular stone chimneys, with water tabling, each originally having 4 flues; deep stone lintels to ground floor windows and doors.
Nos 1-3, and 8-10 are 2 window houses with upper windows set at eaves, and with ground floor window and door aligned below these, door to R except for No 1 where it is to L. No 1 has been extended to rear in flat slate rubble with higher eaves level and consequently higher ridge to roof; window to each floor on SW return. No 10 has basement where ground drops down to stream; door with 2 windows to R on NE return. Nos 4-7 are double fronted with 3 first floor windows, central doorway flanked by windows. Nos 4 & 5 have some decorative render around windows and doors; No 6 is rendered and painted. Nos 1-7 retain C19 sash glazing, most with marginal glazing bars intact, but Nos 8-10 have replacement glazing.
At rear variety of extensions including unusual contemporary attached parallel gabled block to Nos 3 & 4. Rears largely retain small pane glazing either horned sashes or fixed panes.
Houses set in forecourts with low slate rubble walls (some with iron railings); slate gate-posts. Partition walls of forecourts mainly upright slate slabs.
Opposite front of houses across lane are small gardens on land sloping down to stream; walls formed from upright slate slabs.
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