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Ty'n-y-mynydd

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberdaron, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.8291 / 52°49'44"N

Longitude: -4.6228 / 4°37'22"W

OS Eastings: 223396

OS Northings: 328954

OS Grid: SH233289

Mapcode National: GBR 51.TZF5

Mapcode Global: WH33N.Y4TZ

Plus Code: 9C4QR9HG+JV

Entry Name: Ty'n-y-mynydd

Listing Date: 19 October 1971

Last Amended: 26 June 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4246

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004246

Location: Situated on W side of Mynydd y Rhiw, reached by track running SW from Rhiw to Botwnnog road.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Pwllheli

Community: Aberdaron

Community: Aberdaron

Locality: Rhiw

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Croglofft cottage built on the edge of Mynydd y Rhiw at the upper edge of the settlement area, but pre-enclosure being recorded as owned by the Plas yn Rhiw estate in the 1790s. Owned by the estate in the 1840s, occupied by Griffith Jones, with 3 acres (1.2ha). The present house may have been rebuilt in the earlier C19.

Exterior

Cottage with attached former byre, rubble stone with renewed slate roof. Massive boulder foundations. Single storey, the cottage double-fronted and the former byre with slightly higher roofline to the left and uphill. Single stone stack on left end of cottage at join with byre roof, with stone coping at junction. Cottage has 6-pane sash left, C20 half-glazed door and long plate glass C20 window right. Door jambs have projecting stones, a local feature (cf Bodernabwy and barn at Methlem). Slab lintels. Small window at ground floor of right end wall and narrow loop to loft. Former byre to left has single C20 half-glazed door and small window to left. Rear of house and byre each have 6-pane sash.

Reasons for Listing

Included as one of the group of cottages at Rhiw representing an important example of a commons-encroachment landscape.

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    Situated below and to E of Rhiw to Botwnnog road some 500m N of Rhiw church.
  • II Tanygarn
    Situated some 120m down track to Gwern-saer, that runs E off road some 350m NNE of Rhiw church.
  • II Outbuilding further NE of Old Rectory
    Situated NE of Old Rectory, on roadside by drive entry.
  • II Outbuilding NE of Old Rectory
    Situated parallel to NE side of the Old Rectory.
  • II The Old Rectory
    Situated immediately above and to NW of Rhiw churchyard.
  • II Church of St Aelrhiw
    In a loop of the lane running NE from Rhiw village on the slopes of Mynydd Rhiw, 1km approx. E of the village.
  • II Fron Oleu
    Situated some 50m beyond Tanygarn on track to Gwern-Saer, that runs E of road from point 350m NNE of Rhiw church.
  • II* Ty'n-y-graig
    On the NE side of a lane running past Plas-yn-Rhiw to the Church of St Aelrhiw, some 1km E of Rhiw village.

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