Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20940
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/11/1998
Date of Amendment
25/11/1998
Name of Property
Bridge House (aka Ty Bont)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Beddgelert
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Pont Aberglaslyn
Easting
259411
Northing
346242
Street Side
W
Location
Located directly opposite the Pont Aberglaslyn, on the road side.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 house, built for the Aberglaslyn estate in the characteristic Tudorbethan vernacular style commonly employed for such contemporary estate buildings.
Exterior
Lodge-scale house with later additions. Two-storey, 3-bay, with lower one-bay wing set back to the R. Of randomly-coursed, roughly-squared stone blocks under a modern slate roof with deep verges and eaves; plain modern bargeboards and simple end chimneys. Central entrance with boarded door. Above this is a first-floor projecting bay carried on shaped corbels and with hipped roof; rectangular projecting oriel, again corbelled, and with plain glazing. Flanking the entrance on the ground floor are similar corbelled bays with hipped slate roofs; above these are first-floor dormer windows with hipped roofs. A plain stringcourse projects between the ground and first floors. The lower wing to the R has an end chimney and a modern window to the front, contained within a primary opening.
A C20 corrugated iron addition adjoins to the L.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a mid C19 estate house of distinctive rustic design in a prominent road-side location.
Group value with Pont Aberglaslyn.
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