Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty Glo
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1992
- Locality
- Vaynol Park
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20162, -4.20767
- Cadw reference
- 4205
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the W edge of Vaynol Park and at the S end of Boathouse Covert.
History
Built in 1845 for the Vaynol Estate as part of the new works of improvement carried out by Thomas Assheton-Smith, and intended for the estate coalman, so deliberately sited close to the dock where the coal was shipped in. The cross range to the rear is said to have been added in the 1880's. Original building is similar in design to Y Bwthyn, also on the estate (q.v.).
Exterior
Of coursed rubble, with a slate roof and wide eaves. Single storey, built around a central stack with main rooms each side. Symmetrical front with a gabled porch with ball finial and 4-centred arched entrance with voussoirs and half-glazed door. Small pane casement windows, and to 1-window end and rear. Octagonal brick stack at centre similar to those at Wern Gogas on the estate, probably of the 1880's replacing the original. Modern extension to the E.
Reason for designation
Included as a good estate cottage designed for a specific function in relation to the smooth running of the estate, and of group value with the Dock.
Nearby in the register
- Dock at NW edge of Vaynol Park, (including the boathouse)Transportunder 1 mi
- Retaining wall with small jetty in Menai StraitMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Folly tower at Coed TwrGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Boathouse of Plas NewyddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.