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.
Date of Designation
26/02/2003
Date of Amendment
26/02/2003
Name of Property
Workshops attached to nos. 3-6, Glanrafon, Llanwddyn
Location
In the valley 300 m south-east of the Vyrnwy Dam.
History
Workshops integral with a set of four cottages probably built c.1900, as workers housing for the employees at the reservoir. The workshops have lost a chimney or ventilator at the centre of their main roof.
Exterior
Single-storey workshops annexe at right (east) of the terrace.
Reason for designation
Part of a terrace of cottages with workshops related to the new community based on the Vyrnwy Reservoir. A composed group of cottages of picturesque character, which have been carefully conserved.
Group Description
Nos. 3-6 (consecutive) Glanrafon and attached workshops
A planned symmetrical terrace of four two-storey cottages plus workshops built in uncoursed slightly rock-faced local slate masonry, with slate roofs, timber bargeboards and red brick chimneys. The first and last cottages act as crosswings to the group, with gables to front and rear. The gables project slightly at front. The second and third cottages have lower eaves and their upper windows at front and rear are through-eaves dormers.
Each cottage has a pair of 12-pane wood casements separated by a stone mullion above and below (not aligned and the upper windows slightly smaller), and above at rear, with stone sills and concrete lintels. Six-panel front door with a simple canopy supported by brackets.
The adjacent workshop is similar. It is L shaped, with its rear range hip-roofed, the hips dressed with metal. Pair of casements at front similar to those of the cottages; in the east elevation are double doors at left with timber boarding above, a small hatch, a heck door and a small-pane window.
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