4394

 

II  

Designated  

20/02/1974  

26/06/1998  

Hendy and Ty Nant  

 

Gwynedd  

Aberdaron  

Pwllheli  

Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island  

212019  

322196  

 

Situated just N of the Newborough cross towards N end of the island.  

Domestic  

 

Pair of farmhouses built c1870-75 as part of the general rebuilding of the farms on the island by the third Baron Newborough, similar to the 3 other semi-detached pairs: Ty Nant/Ty Nesaf, Cristin, and Ty Pella/Rhedynog Goch.  

Pair of semi-detached farmhouses, Hendy to N, Ty Nant to S, whitewashed render with close-eaved slate steep roof and 3 brick ridge stacks. Slate copings to gables. One and a half storeys, 4-window W front with projecting cross-wing each side. Windows were originally small-paned with timber mullions and transoms, but most are altered in C20. Crosswings have C20 window each floor and a shallow porch against inner return wall with slate roof, square headed opening and ledged door within. Two 3-light windows to centre, the left one original. S end wall has window each floor. Rear wall is rubble stone with similar shallow porch central to each house.  

 

Included as little altered pair of Newborough estate farmhouses to a distinctive design, of group value with the other buildings around the Abbey ruin.