Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cae'r Llwyn Cottages
Llandwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 May 1968
- Locality
- Llandwrog
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llandwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07783, -4.31335
- Cadw reference
- 3787
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 on the southern approach to Llandwrog on the west side of the road; low rubblestone wall to road defines front boundary of front gardens, which are divided from each other by mixture of low walls, hedges and fences.
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the cottages were built in the 1830s as part of the third Lord Newborough's replanning of Llandwrog as an estate village.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as an early example of planned rural estate housing, the terrace is of unusual design, conceived as an integrated whole forming a balanced, Picturesque composition which creates a distinctive component within this intact and important estate village.
Nearby in the register
- Cae'r Llwyn CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cae'r Llwyn CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cae'r Llwyn CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cae'r Llwyn CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.