Prichard Jones Institute Cottage Home

1-6 Cottage Homes, Prichard Jones Institute

Built 1905; a plaque in the hallway of the Institute reads: "This building was erected and endowed by John Prichard Jones, a native of this Parish, and presented as a free gift forever on June 30th 1905 to the people of Newborough for their use and for the use of the people of adjoining parishes, together with the cottage homes which are for the benefit of the inhabitants of Newborough alone. Architect Rowland Lloyd Jones, Caernarvon. Builder Hugh Hughes, Newborough." The institute and cottage homes were erected at a cost of £20,000; the donor, John Prichard Jones, began working as an apprentice in the retail trade in Caernarfon and eventually became Managing Director of Dickens and Jones in Regent Street, London. He also financed the building of Prichard Jones Hall at the University of Wales, Bangor, for which he received a knighthood.

This cottage is one of a group of 6, central one of the 3 on the right on the approach to the Institute. Simplified Neo-Tudor style. Small single storeyed cottage, 2-window range with advanced gabletted bay to one side with gabled dormer, lean-to extensions to rear. Faced with local granite rubble with Ruabon stone dressings, side and rear elevations rendered, gabled dormer with timber facing. Hipped slate roof with tiled cresting (sawtooth to main ridge) and enriched brick stack. Off-centre entrance alongside the advanced bay, with hipped roof broken by decorative dormer gable with timber framing, over a canted bay window of 3-lights; windows are top-hung casements, front window of 4-panes, sides of 2-panes (presumably replacing original sashes). Four-panelled door in porch formed by the continuation of main roof-slope, carried on corbelled brackets, recessed 4-light casement window alongside. Side and rear elevations also have casement windows, set in a way so as not to look out into the neighbouring cottage.