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4 Bryn Eglwys

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandygai, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1757 / 53°10'32"N

Longitude: -4.082 / 4°4'55"W

OS Eastings: 260947

OS Northings: 366314

OS Grid: SH609663

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.3YQW

Mapcode Global: WH54G.8FGS

Plus Code: 9C5Q5WG9+76

Entry Name: 4 Bryn Eglwys

Listing Date: 24 May 2000

Last Amended: 24 May 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 23468

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300023468

Location: Located on south side of road between Nos.1 & 2 and Nos.5, 6 & 7, Bryn Eglwys; low rubblestone wall to front, partly removed at each end to create vehicular accesses.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Bethesda

Community: Llandygai (Llandygái)

Community: Llandygai

Locality: Bryn Eglwys

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Built c1850 as part of a small planned community for workers at the nearby Penrhyn Slate Quarry, the cottages are typical of Edward Douglas-Pennant's considerable efforts to improve the Penrhyn Estate, to which he had succeeded in 1840. The Bryn Eglwys cottages appear to be slightly earlier than St Anne's Church, rebuilt here by the estate in 1865 after the original church of 1813 had been submerged by new workings at the quarry.

Exterior

Belongs to a group of 2.

Nos 3 & 4 Bryn Eglwys, Llandygai.

Pair of Estate cottages, each of single-storey 2-room plan with loft, the whole aligned east-west. Regularly coursed and dressed rubblestone blocks, painted to left gable end and rendered to right; slate roof. Each cottage has handed arrangement of 2- and 3-light windows with slate cills and voussoirs to slightly cambered heads on either side of central entrances, left (No.3) with C20 half-glazed door, right (No.2) now with C20 window in boarded infill; integral end stacks and larger shared stack to centre; gable end windows light lofts. No.3 has been substantially extended at rear.

Interior

Interior not inspected at time of Survey.

Reasons for Listing

Included, notwithstanding prominent C20 addition to No.3, as a pair of mid-C19 small estate cottages of the simple 'vernacular revival' style particularly favoured by the Penrhyn Estate for its workers in the decades immediately after c1850; group value with similar contemporary cottages at Bryn Eglwys, a good example of a small planned quarry community of the mid-C19.

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