Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
4 Fron Goch Terrace
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Derwen, Maentwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 25 February 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2005
- Locality
- Derwen
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94401, -3.98735
- Cadw reference
- 83984
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In an elevated position set along the E side of Derwen in the village of Maentwrog.
History
Late C19 terrace of cottages, probably built during the ambitious programme of building and rebuilding of Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate properties in the 1870s and 1880s under the direction of William Edward Oakeley. Offered up for sale in the auction of the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate, 1910, in Lot 12 'The Picturesque Rural Village of Maentwrog'. The property was described as Frongoch - a block of 5 cottages, occupied by sundry tenants, for an annual rent of £21-10s-0d.(£21.50)
Exterior
Belongs to a group of:
1-5 Fron Goch Terrace.
Two storey terrace of 5 houses, of simple vernacular character, built of roughly coursed rubble masonry with long stones as quoins and lintels. Slate roof with rectangular stone ridge stacks with dripstones and capping.
Offset to the R (S) end of the terrace, the cottage has a central doorway and flanking 2-light timber casement windows with slate sills; first floor windows set under the eaves.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (July 2003).
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a late C19 terrace of small dwellings with simple traditional character. The terrace is little altered and forms a group with other buildings in the centre of the estate village of Maentwrog.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Fron Goch TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Fron Goch TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Fron Goch TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Fron Goch TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.