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Latitude: 52.943 / 52°56'34"N
Longitude: -3.9907 / 3°59'26"W
OS Eastings: 266327
OS Northings: 340259
OS Grid: SH663402
Mapcode National: GBR 5W.LP2G
Mapcode Global: WH55N.N9W4
Plus Code: 9C4RW2V5+6P
Entry Name: Derlwyn
Listing Date: 25 February 2005
Last Amended: 25 February 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 83996
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300083996
Location: Set along the S side of Bull Street (A496) at the S end of the village of Maentwrog.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Maentwrog
Community: Maentwrog
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Late C19 cottage(s). Following the death of William Gruffydd Oakeley of Plas Tan-y-bwlch in 1835, the estate was left to his widow Louisa Jane Oakeley and then on to William Edward Oakeley, William Gruffydd's nephew. Louisa suddenly left Maentwrog in 1868 and did not return before her death in 1878. The estate was therefore left under the management of William Edward Oakeley from 1869 onwards and despite the depletion of the family fortune and the decline in the slate industry towards the end of the C19, he embarked on a programme of rebuilding and improvement of the estate. He rebuilt many of the houses in the village and also extended the village with the erection of several new properties to the S and W end of the village. One of the buildings built at this time was the school, erected in 1871-2, the cottages were probably built shortly after.
Offered up for sale in the auction of the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate, 1910, in Lot 12 'The Picturesque Rural Village of Maentwrog'. The property is thought to have been that described as Storehouse - a pair of cottages, occupied by G M Richards and J Richards, for an annual rent of £2-15s-0d and £2-10s-0d respectively.
Two storey cottage, originally a pair, a linear range of mortared rubble masonry with long stones as lintels. Vernacular character, in contrast to the estate signature employed elsewhere in the village. Slate roof with stone gable stacks with dripstones and capping. A long 5-window range with doorway offset to the L (E); former doorway in the 2nd opening from R end, now partially blocked and with a window in the upper part. The doorway houses a simple boarded door and the windows are timber casements of 2-lights; first floor windows over alternate ground floor openings and set under the eaves.
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Listed as a former pair of late C19 estate cottages retaining simple traditional character and forming a group with the haybarn opposite.
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