Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Caeherfyn Cottage
Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tregarth, Bangor, Llandygai, Gwynedd, designated on 24 May 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 May 2000
- Locality
- Tregarth
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Llandygai
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.19646, -4.09158
- Cadw reference
- 23346
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in roadside position directly at right-angles to minor road running northwards from Tregarth towards the A 5; garden to north is separated from small area immediately in front of cottage by low rubblestone wall with slate slab coping.
History
Shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, the cottage originated in the early C19 as a smallholder's cottage with its own small field system; as such, it is one of the few buildings in Tregarth pre-dating its development as a small slate quarry village from c1850 onwards, even if the cottage's original occupants also supplemented their income by working in the Penrhyn Slate Quarry.
Exterior
Single-storey 2-room plan, aligned roughly east-west, with loft over right (west) room. Roughly coursed rubblestone; graded slate roof with purple brick coping. Front has 4-pane horned sashes with red-painted frames and slate cills on either side of offset boarded door with glazed panel, all openings under slate lintels; rendered integral end stacks. Small window in right gable end lights crog-lofft above right room. Lean-to on rear with boarded door to road.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey but its unspoilt exterior suggests that it is unlikely to be extensively altered and therefore it is probably of particular interest.
Reason for designation
Included as an especially well-preserved early C19 smallholder's cottage retaining its original detail and vernacular character remarkably intact.
Nearby in the register
- Wash House opposite CaeherfynDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Tal GaeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parc Gelli Hut Group and Ancient FieldsUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse/Stables at DinasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.