Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tan-y-Ffordd
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penygroes, Caernarfon, Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 July 2000
- Locality
- Penygroes
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanllyfni
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.06076, -4.26399
- Cadw reference
- 23726
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 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 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set directly by roadside approximately 1.5km north-east of Penygroes.
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the building appears to have originated as a roadside encroachment in the early C19, probably in association with the emerging slate quarries which led to a fragmentation of existing landholdings in the area at this period.
Exterior
White-painted and rendered rubblestone; grouted slate roof with coped verges to right gable end; integral end stacks and shared ridge stack to centre, all with slate drips. Single storey. Each cottage is of 2-unit plan with central entrances flanked by Cl9 four-paned sashes. 2 further sashes to rear (roadside) wall. Projecting single-storey lean-to on left gable end.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a pair of early C19 quarryworkers' cottages, exhibiting many of the characteristics typical of the contemporary smallholders' cottages of the region and forming a distinctive local building type.
Nearby in the register
- Early Habitation Site 180m West of Pen-Yr-AlltConcentric enclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Barn at disused cottage to south-west of Llwyndu CanolAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hut Group near Pen Llwyn, CarmelEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Disused cottage to south-west of Llwyndu CanolDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.