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Awel-y-mor

A Grade II Listed Building in Waunfawr, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.118 / 53°7'4"N

Longitude: -4.2115 / 4°12'41"W

OS Eastings: 252092

OS Northings: 360152

OS Grid: SH520601

Mapcode National: GBR 5L.7PF5

Mapcode Global: WH54L.8WRK

Plus Code: 9C5Q4Q9Q+59

Entry Name: Awel-y-mor

Listing Date: 21 July 1999

Last Amended: 21 July 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22053

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300022053

Location: Situated on the north side of a track running north-eastwards off the west end of the road from Croesywaun to Groeslon; low rubblestone boundary wall defines likely extent of original garden area.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Waunfawr

Community: Waunfawr

Locality: Croesywaun

Built-Up Area: Waunfawr

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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History

Not shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, the cottage is likely to have been built c1850 as part of a smallholding created from the surrounding marginal land.

Exterior

Single-storey and loft 2-room plan, aligned roughly north-east to south-west, with probable former cowhouse under same roofline attached to right (south-west) gable end and now forming part of domestic accommodation; lean-to attached to gable end of former cowhouse and catslide outshut to its rear; original house part also has lean-to at rear but remodelled in C20 and runs down from ridge. Painted roughly coursed rubblestone; graded slate roof. Main elevation has 4-paned sashes flanking central C20 glazed door; integral end stacks, right at junction with former cowhouse, which has small C20 window to right. Small window to left of left end stack lights loft.

Interior

Interior not accessible at time of Survey.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well-preserved mid-C19 smallholder's cottage which, despite some modification and extension, is a good example of the single-storey cottage plan-form, built in the regional vernacular tradition as it continued into the second half of the C19.

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