Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tan-y-dderwen
Aber, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 March 2000
- Locality
- Abergwyngregyn
- Town
- Llanfairfechan
- Community
- Aber
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23401, -4.01490
- Cadw reference
- 22907
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on road junction in centre of village; low rubblestone wall to front on roadside; Pen y mwd, the motte of a probable Norman castle, rises just behind the cottages.
History
Not shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey 25" map of the area, the cottages were probably built in the 1890s as part of the continuing development of Abergwyngregyn as a Penrhyn Estate village at this time, a period when the Estate was particularly active in providing new housing for its rural workforce. The remodelling of Abergwyngregyn by the Estate had begun c1840 as part of its recasting as a "Picturesque" village en route to the increasingly popular tourist destination of Aber Falls.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as essentially unaltered late Victorian workers' housing forming a significant and distinctive component within the important C19 planned Penrhyn Estate village of Abergwyngregyn. The style of the cottages is typical of much of the estate's late C19 phase of workers' housing, that is of mild picturesque composition, bold in its detailing and making good use of the local building materials.
Nearby in the register
- Tan-y-dderwenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-brynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bron DerwDomesticunder 1 mi
- Aber Castle Mound (Pen-y-Mwd)Motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.