Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pandy'r-Odyn Cottages
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74272, -3.89587
- Cadw reference
- 5110
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
Situated on the roadside l00m E of the bridges over the Ceunant Brook at the W edge of the town.
History
Row of six cottages. Later truncated at E end and rest unified into one.
Exterior
Rubble masonry. Steeply pitched slate roof, oversailing eaves, close verges to right, exposed purlins to left. Stone end stack to right. Projecting lateral stack to left rear, slated offsets and gablet. Moulded caps, water tabling.
4 hipped dormers, rubble cheeks, lead valleys. 2 light casement windows, l6 small panes to two at right. Stone sills. 7 windows to ground floor, all 2 light casements, number were formerly doors. Stone lintels. Present doorway set between 6th and 7th windows. Gabled porch, stone side walls, fishscale slate roof, scalloped bargeboards, finial. Horseshoe-shaped timber arch resting on corbels to entry. Ribbed plank door, iron bands.
Later infill wall to left end with two 2 light casement windows to each floor. Remains of later extension to right end with 2 light window inset to former doorway. Unsympathetic modern paving-like treatment to gable end, over lean-to outshot.
Cl9 row of 3 privies to garden at right rear. Rubble masonry, slate roof. Doorheads to eaves, plank doors with rectangular vent hole to top.
Reason for designation
Group value with cottages opposites.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.