Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Otter House at Ty Iocws
Llannor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 8 February 1999
- Locality
- Abererch
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llannor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.90379, -4.41128
- Cadw reference
- 21335
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 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
Ty Iocws (formerly Yoke House) stands at the end of a long driveway, leaving the main road approximately 1km N of Pwllheli. The Otter House is in the centre of a pebbled service yard to the N of the house.
History
The building is probably mid-later C19 in date, and housed otters with which to train the estate otter hounds.
Exterior
The building is circular and stands on a brick plinth taking up the slope of the ground. It consists of a lower section of close-spaced railings with a gate on the N, an upper section of latticed battens painted white topped by a moulded cornice, and a conical roof covered in zinc sheeting. Within, a smaller circular timber house built of vertical boards, with two round topped openings, and a similar conical zinc roof, the whole structure suspended from the cross tie beam of the the main roof over a circular zinc-lined moat. The interior of the inner house is divided across the diameter by a vertical partition.
Reason for designation
Included as an extremely unusual and highly distinctive minor building type, which forms part of a group at Ty Iocws.
Nearby in the register
- Pig-swill House at Ty IocwsAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Stable and Gig-house Range at Ty IocwsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Carthouse at Ty IocwsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Iocws, also known as Yoke House, and attached dwellingDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.