Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19831
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1998
Date of Amendment
14/05/1998
Name of Property
Penstep
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfrothen
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Plas Brondanw Estate
Easting
261651
Northing
342238
Street Side
Location
Prominently located on a bend in the Croesor road immediately S of and opposite Plas Brondanw; set back slightly and raised up on a revetted bank.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 pair of 2 storeyed houses, altered by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and owner of the Brondanw estate from 1908 until his death in 1978; currently one house.
Exterior
2-storey terrace of two houses, now converted to one; of rubble construction, partly-whitened (around former foliage covering) with continuous modern slate roof. This has coved eaves and plain end chimneys with cornicing and weathercoursing; further, similar chimney off-centre to R. Symmetrical 5-bay front with entrances to bays 2 and 4; multi-pane C20 glazed doors with sloped, hipped metal canopies over. 15-pane recessed sash windows (renewed) to ground floor openings except that to far L, of 12 panes; smaller 12-pane sashes to first floor. 5 wide splayed steps, partly-cobbled, lead up to the entrance at L.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Plas Brondanw and associated items.
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