Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Derlwyn
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2005
- Locality
- Maentwrog
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94302, -3.99072
- Cadw reference
- 83996
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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
Set along the S side of Bull Street (A496) at the S end of the village of Maentwrog.
History
Late C19 cottage(s). Following the death of William Gruffydd Oakeley of Plas Tan-y-bwlch in 1835, the estate was left to his widow Louisa Jane Oakeley and then on to William Edward Oakeley, William Gruffydd's nephew. Louisa suddenly left Maentwrog in 1868 and did not return before her death in 1878. The estate was therefore left under the management of William Edward Oakeley from 1869 onwards and despite the depletion of the family fortune and the decline in the slate industry towards the end of the C19, he embarked on a programme of rebuilding and improvement of the estate. He rebuilt many of the houses in the village and also extended the village with the erection of several new properties to the S and W end of the village. One of the buildings built at this time was the school, erected in 1871-2, the cottages were probably built shortly after.
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 is thought to have been that described as Storehouse - a pair of cottages, occupied by G M Richards and J Richards, for an annual rent of £2-15s-0d and £2-10s-0d respectively.
Exterior
Two storey cottage, originally a pair, a linear range of mortared rubble masonry with long stones as lintels. Vernacular character, in contrast to the estate signature employed elsewhere in the village. Slate roof with stone gable stacks with dripstones and capping. A long 5-window range with doorway offset to the L (E); former doorway in the 2nd opening from R end, now partially blocked and with a window in the upper part. The doorway houses a simple boarded door and the windows are timber casements of 2-lights; first floor windows over alternate ground floor openings and set under the eaves.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Reason for designation
Listed as a former pair of late C19 estate cottages retaining simple traditional character and forming a group with the haybarn opposite.
Nearby in the register
- Haybarn opposite DerlwynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- 1 DolwaenNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 2 DolwaenNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 4 Glandwr Cottages including garden wall and gatesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.