Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Oerddwr-Isaf
Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 May 1968
- Locality
- Oerddwr-Isaf
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Beddgelert
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98761, -4.10075
- Cadw reference
- 3753
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 towards the SW boundary of the community on an elevated site high above the Aberglaslyn woods, approximately 2km SW of Nantmor; sited against a rocky outcrop 100m E of Plas Oeddwr; accessed from the main road via a long, steep track.
History
Small vernacular cottage, probably of the early C17, but incorporating cruck trusses (one as a collar) probably reused from an earlier, timber-framed house on the site; the elevated location is suggestive of the site's early origins and the presence of a platform projection to the S would appear to support this.
Exterior
Small single-storey cottage of rubble construction with pronounced boulder foundations and irregular rubble gable parapets. Corrugated iron roof and tall end chimney to L gable; plain capping. Near-central entrance with deeply-recessed boarded door and stone lintel; flanking this are small, square windows with 4-pane late C19 glazing. Similar (unglazed) window to the R gable end, with deep inward splay.
Interior
Two-bay interior probably originally incorporating croglofft. Central collar truss of which one principal is a (probably re-used) cruck blade, as is the collar. Wide fireplace to chimney end (L) with flat oak bressummer; C20 partitioning.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a sub-medieval cottage with good vernacular character and probable earlier origins.
Nearby in the register
- Dinas DduAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- U-shaped Agricultural Range E of Dinas DduAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bron-yr-AurDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen y Gaer CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.