Twll-y-clawdd

Cadw's description

Location

In an isolated rural location reached by a road leading W of a country road S of Mynydd Mechell.

History

Early C19 one-and-a-half storey cottage. The cottage at Twll-y-clawdd is not marked on the Tithe Map of Llanfflewyn, 1841, and appears to be home for the blacksmith and smithy for the large adjacent farmstead of Tyn Llan; a total of over 216 acres (87.48 hectares) owned by Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams Bulkeley Esq. It is listed separately in the Census Returns for the same year, occupied by Jane Parry and Robert Edward, Blacksmith.

Exterior

Linear range with one-and-a-half storey cottage and attached outhouse (now forming part of the accommodation). Pebbledash over stone. Slate roof, heavily grouted, with tiled copings. Rendered gable stacks with capping; L (S) stack is a large square stack with dripstones and capping. Cottage a 2-window range with widely spaced windows to either end and the doorway strongly offset to the L (S) between. Modern door in rendered gabled porch, ground floor windows are fixed 6-pane lights, 1st floor with small 2-pane top-hung casements set directly under the eaves; slate sills. The attached single-storey outhouse has a fixed 6-pane light to R (N); modern door to L (S). To the front of the house is an enclosed yard with a low rendered rubble wall and ornate wrought iron gates.

Interior

Modernised but retains the cambered bressumer over the inglenook; some exposed loft beams and the old steps to the loft.

Reason for designation

Listed as an early C19 one-and-a-half-storey cottage, which demonstrates an intermediate phase of cottage development, falling between the lofted cottage of the C18 and the 2-storey house of the later C19, and which retains its vernacular character.