Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-y-bryn Cottage
Aber, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abergwyngregyn, Llanfairfechan, Aber, Gwynedd, designated on 22 February 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1952
- Locality
- Abergwyngregyn
- Town
- Llanfairfechan
- Community
- Aber
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23480, -4.01158
- Cadw reference
- 3652
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately to the north-east of Pen-y-bryn to which it is attached by a short section of rubblestone wall.
History
Probably late C17 cottage, possibly incorporating remains of an earlier building. Documentary evidence indicates that Pen-y-bryn had a private chapel until the C14, while both a fragment of flashing for a pitched roof on the east wall and a section of offset plinth along part of the north gable end of the present building suggest that its main axis has been changed. The cottage is also said formerly to have contained a stone slab with 5 incised crosses, possibly a pre-Reformation altar slab.
Exterior
Small 2-storey cottage, aligned roughly north-south. Very roughly coursed rubblestone with extensive remains of limewashing; graded slate roof with stepped coping to north gable end and slate coping on south. West wall has a doorway and window; small dormer on east side, C20 window possibly replacing an earlier one in north gable end and substantial integral end stack on south.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey but said to have large open fireplace with heavy timber lintel and original ceiling beam with later partition below dividing the ground floor into 2 rooms; central A-frame roof truss.
Reason for designation
Included as an essentially unspoilt C17 cottage, possibly incorporating some traces of a medieval manorial chapel; strong group value with the adjoining house.
Scheduled Ancient Monument (218).
Nearby in the register
- Pen-y-brynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Enclosure & Associated Structures at Pen-y-BrynEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Gatehouse/Barn at Pen-y-brynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Aber Castle Mound (Pen-y-Mwd)Motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.