Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty'n-y-mynydd
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Rhiw
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.82909, -4.62282
- Cadw reference
- 4246
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on W side of Mynydd y Rhiw, reached by track running SW from Rhiw to Botwnnog road.
History
Croglofft cottage built on the edge of Mynydd y Rhiw at the upper edge of the settlement area, but pre-enclosure being recorded as owned by the Plas yn Rhiw estate in the 1790s. Owned by the estate in the 1840s, occupied by Griffith Jones, with 3 acres (1.2ha). The present house may have been rebuilt in the earlier C19.
Exterior
Cottage with attached former byre, rubble stone with renewed slate roof. Massive boulder foundations. Single storey, the cottage double-fronted and the former byre with slightly higher roofline to the left and uphill. Single stone stack on left end of cottage at join with byre roof, with stone coping at junction. Cottage has 6-pane sash left, C20 half-glazed door and long plate glass C20 window right. Door jambs have projecting stones, a local feature (cf Bodernabwy and barn at Methlem). Slab lintels. Small window at ground floor of right end wall and narrow loop to loft. Former byre to left has single C20 half-glazed door and small window to left. Rear of house and byre each have 6-pane sash.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the group of cottages at Rhiw representing an important example of a commons-encroachment landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Tanyffordd (aka Tanybwlch)Domesticunder 1 mi
- TanygarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding further NE of Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding NE of Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.