Detail Report - Bangor Civic Society

Authority Gwynedd
Community Llandygai
Locality Chwarel-goch
Postcode
Name
Location
LL57 4NU
Pant-y-Lon
Detail Report
Record No 23353
Grid Ref 260544 367232
Grade II
Situated in roadside position on minor road running from Mynnydd Llandygai towards Tregarth at entrance to
drive-way of farmhouse at Chwarel Goch Isaf; low rubblestone wall with stone-on-edge coping in front of cottage.
History
Built c1850 as part of Edward Douglas-Pennant's considerable efforts to improve the Penrhyn Estate, to which he
had succeeded in 1840. Colonel Douglas-Pennant first gave notice to his tenants of his intention to improve
through his agent, James Wyatt's address "To the Farming Tenantry of the Penrhyn Estate", printed in 1843.
Exterior
Single-storey, 2-room plan with loft, aligned roughly north-west to south-east. Roughly coursed rubblestone with
quoins; slate roof with slate coping. 4-paned sash windows with slate cills on either side of slightly offset boarded
door with large glazed panel under open timber gabled porch; C20 rooflight directly below ridge to right; integral
end stacks with brick shafts, right mainly rendered. Rubblestone lean-to on left has top-hung window to front.
Catslide outshut at rear.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Listed
Included as an essentially unaltered mid-C19 estate cottage of the simple 'vernacular revival' style particularly
favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for its workers in the decades immediately after c1850.
Reference
National Trust Guide to Penrhyn Castle, (1991), p85;
J Lindsay, A History of the North Wales Slate Industry, (1974), pp226-9.
Date Listed
Date Amended
Date Delisted
24/05/2000
20 February 2012 Page 38 of 174