Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Tirion
Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 June 2001
- Locality
- Harlech
- Community
- Harlech
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85900, -4.10652
- Cadw reference
- 25507
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
Set against the hill slope at the junction between Pen Dref and a lane leading to Rehoboth chapel, in the centre of the town.
History
Early Victorian vernacular cottage dated 1841; repaired and re-roofed with a town scheme grant, 1996-7.
Exterior
Small 2 storey cottage of local rubble construction partly on rock foundations; slate roof with rubble gable parapets and end chimneys with slate cornicing and weathercoursing. Symmetrical 2-window elevation with central entrance and modern door; boarded, with 6-pane glazed upper section. Small 4-pane casement windows, modern replacements. Above the door is a modern slate plaque inscribed: 'Bryn Tirion 1841.' A high rubble revettment wall adjoins the cottage to the L and and follows the curve of the lane for a short distance.
Interior
The interior was not accessible at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual small, detatched mid-C19 cottage retaining good original external character.
Nearby in the register
- Capel RehobothReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gweithdy SaerCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ty'r FelinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bier House at Capel RehobothReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.