Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhyd-Ddu, Caernarfon, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 January 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Rhyd-Ddu
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05382, -4.13598
- Cadw reference
- 21278
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the southern end of raised C19 terrace on the west side of the A 4085 at Rhyd-Ddu.
History
Late C18 cottage clearly pre-dating the C19 terrace to which it is attached at its northern end. One of only a few buildings constructed before the establishment of the turnpike road in the 1820s and the subsequent development of Rhyd-Ddu as a small centre serving the local slate quarrying industry.
Exterior
Single-storey cottage. Roughly coursed rubblestone with traces of limewash, rendered to right gable end; slate roof. 2-room plan, left room unheated, with lean-to outshut to rear; it also appears from the slight continuation of the front wall beyond the right gable end that there was formerly an outbuilding (or another cottage) attached to the right. Late C20 horned 12-pane glazing bar sashes to either side of central boarded door with small glazed panel; substantial integral end stack with slate drips to right.
Interior
Not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered late C18 cottage pre-dating the essentially C19 development of Rhyd-Ddu.
Nearby in the register
- Slate Direction IndicatorsTransportunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Fridd-isafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse to South of Fridd-isafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.