Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
30/05/1996
Date of Amendment
30/05/1996
Name of Property
Gwydir Cottage
Location
Set back and raised up slightly on the W side of the B 5106 (Gwydir Road), some 200m SE of Gwydir Castle.
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 with sandstone dressings; slate roof with 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 S gable; of 2 stages with a cylindrical stack with plain cornice. Near-centre entrance with slightly-recessed boarded and studded door and flanking mullioned windows, 3 lights to the L and 2 to the R. Chamfered sandstone mullions and reveals and simple returned labels to windows and entrance; sash windows to each light with leaded upper panes. Square, squat chimney with simple 2-stage capping to the L at rear.
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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