4830

 

II  

Designated  

30/11/1966  

25/02/2005  

Dolydd  

 

Gwynedd  

Maentwrog  

 

 

266532  

340424  

 

Slightly set back from the E side of the road leading SE off Bull Street in the village of Maentwrog; located c.100m SE of the Church of St. Twrog. Located directly to left (S) of Hendy'r Ysgol  

Domestic  

 

Early to mid C19 cottage, formerly known as the 'Old School Cottage'. William Gruffyd Oakeley (1790-1835) was only 21 when he inherited the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate and set about an ambitious programme of improving the estate properties, he set about building new buildings in the village of Maentwrog and rebuilding or improving the existing buildings. Offered up for sale in the auction of the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate, 1910, in Lot 12 'The Picturesque Rural Village of Maentwrog'. The property was described as Old School Cottage, occupied by Morris Jones, for an annual rent of £4-10s-0d.(£4.50)  

Single storey cottage built of coursed, roughly dressed local stone; slate roof with overhanging eaves and verges and rectangular stone stacks with dripstones and capping. The main elevation faces the street to W, a 2-window range with central doorway under a shallow overlight; windows are 2-pane sashes.  

The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).  

Included, notwithstanding alterations, as a notably small early C19 cottage that forms a group with the adjacent school house in the centre of the estate village of Maentwrog.