Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bwthyn
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 July 2000
- Locality
- Nantlle
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanllyfni
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05823, -4.17725
- Cadw reference
- 23678
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the south side of the B 4418 at the foot of a rock face directly opposite the Chapel.
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the cottages were built before 1836 to house workers at the nearby copper mine (now disused and ruinous), which was already working in the 1790s. It appears from the plan-form of the building and the existence of garden enclosures that the cottages were constructed as family rather than barrack accommodation. Another row of cottages, now a roofless ruin, stands a little closer to the rock face to the south-west.
Exterior
Row of 3 copper miners' cottages. Roughly coursed rubblestone, painted to left part; large graded slate roof. Single storey. Long rectangular plan consisting of 3 cottages, the right now abandoned. Mid-C19 plate glass sashes in original openings, once 6 (now 5) in total, to either side of regularly spaced plank doors; integral end stacks and 2 ridge stacks, all with slate drips, the ridge stacks shared between cottages. The right cottage has widened entrance to front in place of the original doorway and right window. The left and centre cottages retain their original drystone-walled garden enclosures to the front.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of purpose-built early C19 copper mine workers' cottages, which form a good group with the roughly contemporary chapel and house (Glanrafon) opposite.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Drws-y-coed and Ty CapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Drws y Coed Copper MineCopper Mineunder 1 mi
- Drws y Coed Prehistoric SettlementUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.