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Wood Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandwrog, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0627 / 53°3'45"N

Longitude: -4.3086 / 4°18'31"W

OS Eastings: 245395

OS Northings: 354207

OS Grid: SH453542

Mapcode National: GBR 5G.C3TN

Mapcode Global: WH43S.S8GX

Plus Code: 9C5Q3M7R+3G

Entry Name: Wood Cottage

Listing Date: 30 September 1999

Last Amended: 30 September 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22443

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300022443

Location: Located in an extremely isolated position on rising ground at end of no-through trackway running through parkland and then woodland to the south-east of Plas Newydd.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llandwrog

Community: Llandwrog

Locality: Plas Newydd

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Built c1850 as an estate worker's cottage during the ownership of the third Lord Newborough.

Exterior

Mild Picturesque Gothic style favoured by the Newborough Estate. Original 2-storey cross-plan with large, loosely attached C20 single-storey addition to south-east. C19 building of roughly coursed rubblestone and slate roof with deep overhanging verges and exposed purlin ends; similar materials to C20 extension. North gable has half-glazed door with large decorative blind cross shape to apex; to left in front wall is a wooden cross-window; west gable has 2-light window with 3 horizontal glazing bars on first floor and similar 3-light window on ground floor; 4-paned sash on ground floor of east gable. Tall stack to ridge of south gable; C20 extension has large 4-light window in south gable end.

Interior

Interior not accessible at time of Survey.

Reasons for Listing

Included, notwithstanding C20 extension, as an essentially well-preserved mid-C19 estate worker's cottage on the remarkably complete C19 Glynllifon Estate.

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