Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lon Goch
Botwnnog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Meyllteyrn, Pwllheli, Botwnnog, Gwynedd, designated on 11 February 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 February 1998
- Locality
- Meyllteyrn
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Botwnnog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.86326, -4.59476
- Cadw reference
- 19337
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 1.69km E of Sarn Meyllteyrn to S of minor road, in a walled garden.
History
A small cottage probably dating from the earlier C19. Marked on the 1839 Tithe Map as owned and occupied by Mary Thomas.
Exterior
A two-storey, double-fronted cottage. Rendered stone, with slate roof; end stacks, caps have plain oversailing course and water tabling at base. Ground floor has off-centre gabled porch with batten door, flanked on either side by 12-pane hornless sashes with two corresponding 9-pane sashes at first floor level. Windows have thin slate sills and flat heads. Rendered lean-to (former cow shed) at S gable-end. Rear gable wing has S facing C20 porch, adjoining W front has small 4-pane sash with horns on ground floor, with tiny single-pane stair light in centre of upper wall.
Interior
Passage to central stair at back, with kitchen/living room opening off to left, and parlour right.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved example of a traditionally constructed small vernacular house of a type once common but now rare in the region.
Nearby in the register
- PenrhosDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St BeunoReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Efail Pont y GofDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.