Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garthewin Cottage
Llanfair Talhaiarn, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Garthewin
- Community
- Llanfair Talhaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22076, -3.62656
- Cadw reference
- 186
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Located 100m to the NW of Garthewin, facing a large rear estate yard; set back behind a small fenced front garden plot.
History
Early C19 former laundry perhaps contemporary with the Regency drawing room block added as a pavilion wing to the main house; now converted to domestic use.
Exterior
Rectangular 2-storey building of rubble construction with hipped slate roof and Victorian brick chimney to the SW; C20 central wooden cupola with moulded eaves and lead ogee roof with ball finial 2 storeys, of rectangular plan with symmetrical 3-bay facade; central entrance via modern wooden gabled porch. Segmentally-arched flanking windows with 3 plain window openings under the eaves; all have modern out-of-character uPVC glazing. To the rear is a modern, weather-boarded 2-storey extension.
Interior
The interior was not available for inspection at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other listed items at Garthewin.
Nearby in the register
- C-shaped Agricultural Complex at GarthewinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Terrace Walls, Steps and Gazebo at GarthewinGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- GarthewinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chapel at GarthewinReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.