Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16930
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/05/1996
Date of Amendment
30/05/1996
Name of Property
Bron Edda
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Trefriw
Town
Trefriw
Locality
Trefriw
Easting
277923
Northing
362805
Street Side
Location
Located at the SE edge of the town on a hillside, backing onto the Coed y Wern; at the end of a short lane leading S from the Pont-y-Pandy.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
One of a number of Gwydir estate cottages built by Lord Willoughby de Eresby c.1845 and conceived in a characteristic and highly stylised pseudo-vernacular style. This estate style represents a fusion between the Tudorbethan popularly employed in this context, and a Picturesque historicising style, ultimately dependant on such earlier examples as the Ty-Hyll, or `Ugly House' near Capel Curig.
Exterior
Single-storey 2-window cottage constructed of rough-dressed slate-stone blocks under a slate roof. This has deep verges and eaves, the latter with characteristic shaped corbelling, diagonally-set at the corners, and the former of large slate slab construction. Round, projecting end chimney to the N gable; of 2 stages with a cylindrical stack also of 2 stages, smaller at the top and with plain cornices. Near-centre entrance with slightly-recessed boarded door; modern flanking leaded, wooden mullioned windows with projecting slate cills. Triangular arched-headed window to S gable; plain glazing.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey (February 1996).
Reason for designation
A mid C19 estate cottage of characteristic design.
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