Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4246
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Ty'n-y-mynydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Rhiw
Easting
223396
Northing
328954
Street Side
Location
Situated on W side of Mynydd y Rhiw, reached by track running SW from Rhiw to Botwnnog road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Croglofft cottage built on the edge of Mynydd y Rhiw at the upper edge of the settlement area, but pre-enclosure being recorded as owned by the Plas yn Rhiw estate in the 1790s. Owned by the estate in the 1840s, occupied by Griffith Jones, with 3 acres (1.2ha). The present house may have been rebuilt in the earlier C19.
Exterior
Cottage with attached former byre, rubble stone with renewed slate roof. Massive boulder foundations. Single storey, the cottage double-fronted and the former byre with slightly higher roofline to the left and uphill. Single stone stack on left end of cottage at join with byre roof, with stone coping at junction. Cottage has 6-pane sash left, C20 half-glazed door and long plate glass C20 window right. Door jambs have projecting stones, a local feature (cf Bodernabwy and barn at Methlem). Slab lintels. Small window at ground floor of right end wall and narrow loop to loft. Former byre to left has single C20 half-glazed door and small window to left. Rear of house and byre each have 6-pane sash.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the group of cottages at Rhiw representing an important example of a commons-encroachment landscape.
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