Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bron Derw
Aber, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abergwyngregyn, Aber, Gwynedd, designated on 7 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 March 2000
- Locality
- Abergwyngregyn
- Community
- Aber
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23377, -4.01484
- Cadw reference
- 22912
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Stands in centre of village just beyond road junction, with Pen y mwd just behind; front wall of projecting gable sitting directly on road has low rubblestone boundary wall on either side, gate to Bron Derw with square dressed stone piers.
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 c.1840 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 picturesque 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 strong composition, bold in its detailing and making good use, particularly in the slate hanging, of the most abundant and distinctive local material.
Nearby in the register
- Tan-y-brynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-dderwenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-dderwenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ddol CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.