87811

 

II  

Designated  

14/09/2020  

 

Old Cottage in the grounds of Garth  

 

Gwynedd  

Llanfair  

 

Pensarn  

258309  

328129  

 

South-east of the house, which is reached up a short lane on the N side of a minor road E of the A496 at Pensarn.  

Domestic  

Georgian  

Probably C18 and marked as a cottage, known as Garth, on the Llanfair Tithe map of 1839. It probably ceased to be a dwelling after a new house was built on the site, which is shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey map.  

A single-storey double-fronted cottage built of rubble field stone, with slate-stone lintels, under a renewed slate roof behind coped gables, with stone stack to the Left. The boarded door is flanked by wood-framed small-pane windows with opening iron-frame light in the Right-hand. The rear is built into the slope and has one small blocked window and a blocked former doorway in line with the front door. The adjacent Garth House is not of special architectural or historic interest.  

Although the interior was originally of two units, perhaps with crog loft, it is now undivided. Walls are limewashed and there are some flagstones visible. Above the fireplace is the remains of a plastered fireplace hood, although only the wickerwork frame has survived, and in poor condition. To its Right is a bread oven. The collar-beam roof truss is late C19 or C20 and is built of machine-sawn timber.  

Listed as a rare unmodernised example of a small traditional cottage, retaining early fabric and detail, notably its fireplace hood, a type rare in NW Wales.