Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tegfan and adjoining cottage to right
Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 May 1999
- Locality
- Rhosgadfan
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanwnda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.08904, -4.23344
- Cadw reference
- 21818
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
Situated on south-east side of road in Rhosgadfan; rubblestone wall in front to pavement, original stone-on-edge coping mostly replaced with concrete finials and horizontal steel railing; iron gate to each cottage.
History
Pair of cottages built for workers on the Newborough Estate in the 1840s, the cottages are not shown on the 1839 Tithe Map but their occupants are listed in the 1851 census. C20 flat-roofed and lean-to additions to front of both cottages.
Exterior
Pair of single-storey cottages, each originally of one-room plan. Snecked rubblestone; pyramidal slate roof, left cottage (Tegfan) retaining its original large slates, with tall shared stack to centre. Entrances to left and right respectively, with single windows flanking stack, both C20 but in original openings. Entrance to Tegfan now subsumed in C20 flat-roofed addition to front, that to right cottage has C20 porch with tin roof and half-glazed door with further lean-to addition projecting to front.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included, despite extension and considerable alteration, as an example of the type of cottages provided for its workers by the Newborough Estate in the 1840s.
Nearby in the register
- GorphwysfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cae'r GorsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-braichDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhosgadfan HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.