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Latitude: 53.2114 / 53°12'40"N
Longitude: -4.5005 / 4°30'1"W
OS Eastings: 233116
OS Northings: 371175
OS Grid: SH331711
Mapcode National: GBR 56.1R76
Mapcode Global: WH42X.VJ2Y
Plus Code: 9C5Q6F6X+GQ
Entry Name: Tyn Towyn
Listing Date: 5 April 1971
Last Amended: 25 November 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 5274
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300005274
Location: In an isolated location set back from the W side of the A4080 Aberffraw to Rhosneigr road. The cottage is set in an elevated position at the SE side of Porth Nobla.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Community: Aberffraw
Community: Aberffraw
Locality: Porth Nobla
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: Cottage
Early C18 vernacular cottage. Tyn Towyn is not shown as an individual building on the tithe map of the parish, 1839, located within the boundaries of Fferam; listed as a separate property (a labourers cottage) in the 1841 census returns.
A single storey, 2-unit plan cottage, with single storey wing set at right angles to rear and lean-to addition to rear of E side. Built of rubble masonry on boulder foundations; heavily mortared, front (S) and W elevations rendered. Roof of small slates, those of lean-to addition roof grouted, with tiled ridge and rubble gable stacks with rendered caps over slate dripcourses; the stack at W end larger than that to E. Entrance elevation faces S, a 2-window range with central doorway; the small 4-pane windows are slightly recessed, left (W) window is a casement, right (E) window a horned sash. The rear elevation has a similarly detailed W window, E window a single pane fixed light. The W wall has a single window to the rear (N); a tall, 4-pane casement with a segmental brick head. The rear wing has modern casements and the lean-to addition has a single square-headed doorway in the S wall.
Listed as a good surviving example of a single storey vernacular cottage, retaining early character, including disposition and scale of openings.
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