Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garreglwyd
Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1998
- Locality
- Cilan
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llanengan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.79611, -4.52813
- Cadw reference
- 19620
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in field approached from the W by track leading NW over Mynydd Cilan Common from Siop Cilan to Penygroes.
History
Single storey cottage, possibly late C18 or early C19, and possibly part of the encroachment onto common land typical of the area.
Exterior
House, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roof and rendered end wall stacks, larger to left. One storey and loft, double-fronted with 4-pane casement each side of ledged door. Stone slab lintels. Added broad buttress to left of left window. Altered small outbuilding at N end. Rendered rear wall with one tiny window to left. N end has tiny loft light, small window to ground floor in S gable.
Reason for designation
One of the best surviving single-storey houses of the region.
Nearby in the register
- Castell CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pared Mawr CampPromontory Fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Cilan-Uchaf Burial ChamberChambered Tombunder 1 mi
- Chimney of former Llanengan Lead-mineIndustrial1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.