Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carreg Bach
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 February 1974
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76300, -4.78814
- Cadw reference
- 4392
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 E side of track up to the Abbey some 200m S of the Abbey ruin.
History
Croglofft cottage, possibly early C19, the only survivor of the island housing of before the rebuilding of the 1870s. A photograph by John Thomas of 1886 shows that there have been minor alterations since then to the chimney and windows and the loss of the low whitewashed front wall.
Exterior
Croglofft cottage, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roof and single N end stack, shown as square and stone in 1886 photograph, now smaller brick stack on rendered base. Quarry tile gable coping, post 1886. Single storey, double-fronted with window each side of ledged door. Windows were small-pane sashes in 1886, now C20. Small rubble stone outbuilding to left with corrugated-iron flat roof (slate gabled roof 1886).
Interior
Two-bay roof with tie-beam truss, loft with ladder access, unheated room below. Small fireplace to main room.
Reason for designation
Included as the oldest surviving cottage on the island, a good example of the regional crogloffted small cottage.
Nearby in the register
- Ty Bach / Ty NesafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to Ty Bach / Ty NesafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Memorial Cross in graveyard to SReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Carreg FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.