Oerddwr-Isaf, Beddgelert, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9876 / 52°59'15"N

Longitude: -4.1007 / 4°6'2"W

OS Eastings: 259079

OS Northings: 345429

OS Grid: SH590454

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.HSCV

Mapcode Global: WH55D.Z5FG

Plus Code: 9C4QXVQX+2P

Entry Name: Oerddwr-Isaf

Listing Date: 29 May 1968

Last Amended: 25 November 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3753

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003753

Location: Located towards the SW boundary of the community on an elevated site high above the Aberglaslyn woods, approximately 2km SW of Nantmor; sited against a rocky outcrop 100m E of Plas Oeddwr; accessed fr

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Beddgelert

Locality: Oerddwr-Isaf

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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History

Small vernacular cottage, probably of the early C17, but incorporating cruck trusses (one as a collar) probably reused from an earlier, timber-framed house on the site; the elevated location is suggestive of the site's early origins and the presence of a platform projection to the S would appear to support this.

Exterior

Small single-storey cottage of rubble construction with pronounced boulder foundations and irregular rubble gable parapets. Corrugated iron roof and tall end chimney to L gable; plain capping. Near-central entrance with deeply-recessed boarded door and stone lintel; flanking this are small, square windows with 4-pane late C19 glazing. Similar (unglazed) window to the R gable end, with deep inward splay.

Interior

Two-bay interior probably originally incorporating croglofft. Central collar truss of which one principal is a (probably re-used) cruck blade, as is the collar. Wide fireplace to chimney end (L) with flat oak bressummer; C20 partitioning.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as a sub-medieval cottage with good vernacular character and probable earlier origins.

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II Dinas Ddu
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II U-shaped Agricultural Range E of Dinas Ddu
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II Bron-yr-Aur
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II Oerddwr-Uchaf
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II Bridge House (aka Ty Bont)
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II Pont Aberglaslyn
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II Pen-y-Groes
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Oerddwr-Isaf

A Grade II Listed Building in Beddgelert, Gwynedd