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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22961
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/03/2000
Date of Amendment
09/03/2000
Name of Property
Slate Fencing at Bwthyn Cochwillan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanllechid
Town
Locality
Cochwillan
Easting
260669
Northing
369463
Street Side
Location
Defines the northern boundary of Bwthyn Cochwillan.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Apparently contemporary with Bwthyn Cochwillan. The slate fencing is of the type noted in 1798 on the Penrhyn estates by the Revd. W Bingley as being entirely new to him: "the fences were made with pieces of blue slate...driven into the ground about a foot distant from each other, and interwoven near the top with briars, or any kind of flexible branches to hold them together". Bingley also observed that "in point of ornament" they were "sufficiently neat".
Exterior
Slate fencing consisting of thin vertical slabs set into ground and linked by horizontal wire; iron gate in fence approached by large slate slab laid as footbridge over small stream running along boundary.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a regionally characteristic traditional fencing type, defining the northern boundary of Bwthyn Cochwillan and thus forming a distinctive component of its historic setting.
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