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Fron Oleu

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberdaron, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.8296 / 52°49'46"N

Longitude: -4.6179 / 4°37'4"W

OS Eastings: 223729

OS Northings: 328995

OS Grid: SH237289

Mapcode National: GBR 52.TSSM

Mapcode Global: WH44T.148M

Plus Code: 9C4QR9HJ+RR

Entry Name: Fron Oleu

Listing Date: 19 October 1971

Last Amended: 26 June 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4247

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004247

Location: Situated some 50m beyond Tanygarn on track to Gwern-Saer, that runs E of road from point 350m NNE of Rhiw church.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Pwllheli

Community: Aberdaron

Community: Aberdaron

Locality: Rhiw

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Cottage, earlier C19, part of the group of cottages built on encroached common land N of Plas-yn-Rhiw. Marked on 1842 Rhiw Tithe Map. Altered since 1971 listing.

Exterior

Cottage, whitewashed textured render with grouted slate roof and whitewashed rendered end stacks with dripstones. Single storey and loft, double-fronted with C20 window each side of door, the left window larger, (in 1971 there was a sash left and a casement to right). Small skylight in roof. C20 rebuilt addition to left, to similar roof height and with large front window (in 1971 there was a dry-stone lean-to here).

Interior

Interior not accessible at time of survey. In 1971 said to have had 'wide fireplace with beam above, covered, and with somewhat recessed oven. Ceiling joists with roll-moulded edges. Wide-boarded floor. Close-string stair. Flag floor'.

Reasons for Listing

Included despite alterations as part of the compact and largely complete group of encroachment cottages on this still uncultivated hillside. As a group they form one of the best examples regionally of the process of settling marginal land in the C19.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Tanygarn
    Situated some 120m down track to Gwern-saer, that runs E off road some 350m NNE of Rhiw church.
  • II Outbuilding at Gwernsaer
    Situated above and to W of Gwernsaer.
  • II Tanyffordd (aka Tanybwlch)
    Situated below and to E of Rhiw to Botwnnog road some 500m N of Rhiw church.
  • II Gwernsaer
    Situated on edge of common land NW of Rhiw, approached by steep track from junction 300m N of Rhiw church.
  • II Tanyrardd
    Situated on common land NW of Rhiw church, on N side of track from Gwern-saer to Bryn-ffynnon.
  • II Pic-y-parc
    Situated on N edge of the uncultivated hillside with cottages NNE of Rhiw church, some 300m NNE of Fron Oleu.
  • II* Frondeg
    Situated on common land NW of Rhiw church, some 300m N of Gwern-saer, above Bryn-y-ffynnon.
  • II Pigsty at Frondeg
    Situated a few metres SE of the cottage, outside the walled enclosures of its garden plot; between Fron Deg and Bryn Ffynnon.

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