Tegfan and adjoining cottage to right

Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Rhosgadfan, Caernarfon, Llanwnda, Gwynedd, designated on 28 May 1999.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Tegfan and adjoining cottage to right, Llanwnda, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

TodayHistorical map

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0

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