Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Limekiln Cottage, including revetment walls and steps
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, designated on 1 April 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Locality
- Porthmadog
- Town
- Porthmadog
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92396, -4.13117
- Cadw reference
- 85389
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
One of a pair of houses just beyond the NW corner of Cornhill.
History
Cornhill Cottage and Limekiln Cottage were built in the 2nd quarter of the C19 and are shown on the 1842 Tithe map. The houses are shown on the 1871 Tremadog estate plan and 1888 Ordnance Survey, but without the forecourt wall, which is therefore probably later.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of Cornhill Cottage and Limekiln Cottage.
A pair of 2-storey 2-window houses of large slate-stone blocks laid in regular courses, and slate roof with 2 later small roughcast stacks. Cornhill Cottage on the L side has a replacement glazed door and replacement 2-light casement windows in original openings. Limekiln Cottage has a former doorway to the R, now a window, an enlarged modern window to the L and in the upper storey 2-light casement windows in original openings. The entrance is in an added rear wing of pebble-dash painted white, and has a modern glazed door. On the L side of Cornhill Cottage, at street level, is a boarded door and overlight to the yard behind No 15 Cornhill.
Two revetment walls retain the steep ground from street level to the entrances of the cottages, and are of coursed unworked slate-stone. The lower revetment has a concrete coping, and gateways, with slate orthostats, leading to slate steps up to the houses. Return walls on both sides have coping courses.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding window replacement, for its special architectural interest as one of a pair of houses near the commercial centre of the port, notable for its distinctive use of local stone and retaining definite C19 character, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Porthmadog harbour.
Nearby in the register
- Cornhill Cottage, including revetment walls and stepsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 15 Pencei (Cornhill)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Tafarn Pencei Cafe BarDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 Pencei (Cornhill)No class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.