Northern Cottage at Home Farm

Cadw's description

Location

Home Farm is situated on the east side of the A 5122 between Llandygai and Bangor on the western side of Penrhyn Park directly opposite a large industrial estate; the boundary wall of the park screens the farm from the road.

History

Home Farm was established, as the name implies, as the home farm to the Penrhyn Estate soon after Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant succeeded to the estate in 1840. Douglas-Pennant was a noted agricultural improver and first gave notice to his tenants of his intention to improve the estate through his agent, James Wyatt's address "To the Farming Tenantry of the Penrhyn Estate", printed in 1843. At Home Farm agent and owner combined to create a new farm based on the latest principles of agricultural efficiency. Although clearly always partly domestic, this cottage also formerly served as the farm dairy.

Exterior

House and former dairy. 2-storey T-plan building with projecting gabled range to right extending to rear. Mixed irregularly coursed and regularly coursed rubblestone; slate roof with projecting verges and carved purlin ends. Long range has wrap-round lean-to verandah supported on wooden posts with carved brackets over glazed double doors in gable end and 3-light 24-paned window to centre of front wall with 6-panel door to right in angle with projecting range; narrow window to apex of gable end. Projecting range has casement window on first floor and canted bay window to ground floor with 2-light 16-paned casement to centre and flanking 8-paned lights; prominent stone ridge stack to rear range close to junction with main range. Verandah has slate slab floor.

Interior

Interior not inspected at time of Survey.

Reason for designation

Included as an integral part of the very fine complex of farmbuildings at Home Farm, one of the best-preserved, largest and earliest of the many 'model' farms on the Penrhyn Estate.