Detail Report - Bangor Civic Society

Authority Gwynedd
National Park
Snowdonia
Community Llandygai
Locality Llandygai
Postcode
Name
Street No, Name
Location
LL57 4LG
Tan-y-Bryn
Detail Report
Record No 23464
Grid Ref 259803 370630
Grade II
Located on west side of the old main street through the village (Telford's London to Holyhead turnpike road),
which has now been by-passed by new road to the west; hedge in front with decorative iron gates and stone gate
piers to each cottage.
Belongs to a group of
Nos.1-3 Tan-y-Bryn, Llandygai
History
Not shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey 25" map of the area, the cottages were probably built in the 1890s as
part of continuing improvements on the Penrhyn Estate at this time.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Listed
Included as essentially unaltered late Victorian workers' housing forming a significant and distinctive component
within the important C19 planned Estate village of Llandygai. The style of the cottages is typical of much of the
estate's late C19 phase of workers' housing, that is of symmetrical composition, bold in its detailing and making
good use, particularly in the slate hanging, of the most abundant and distinctive local material.
Reference
2
Terrace of three 2-storey cottages comprising central range with flanking flush gables, each section forming a
separate cottage. Snecked slate-stone blocks, slate-hung on first floor; slate roof with deep verges. Central range
has slightly offset gabled stone and timber porch containing C20 half-glazed door with 3-light mullioned and
transomed timber window immediately to its right; 3-light flat-roofed dormer with pediment to centre now has
late C20 plastic windows. Each gable has 24-paned 4-light window on first floor with handed 3-light timber
mullioned and transomed window and smaller window on ground floor; gabled porches on each return, left with
boarded door in front wall of porch, right open to front with boarded door only to side wall of cottage, which is
probably the original arrangement. Central range has prominent ridge stacks to left and right with stone bases
and clustered brick diagonal shafts with moulded capping.
Ordnance Survey 25" map, 1888 (Caernarvonshire, VII. 13).
Date Listed
Date Amended
Date Delisted
24/05/2000
20 February 2012 Page 16 of 174