Gwynant House

Nos 1-7 Club Street (Benefit Society Cottages)

This range of cottages is arranged in two sections. Nos 1-4 form a continuously-roofed block, while nos 5-7 are stepped up and adjoining, creating a symmetrical group of three. Each unit is set back slightly from the road behind a forecourt garden.

The buildings are constructed from coursed, roughly-dressed stone with slate roofs and tiled ridges. Simple end chimneys define each individual unit.

Nos 1 to 4 form a reflected group. The central pair, nos 2 and 3, each have two windows on both floors with central entrances. The outer units, nos 1 and 4, have single windows with entrances to the left. The entrance to no 2 retains its original 6-panel door with rectangular overlight; the other doors are modern, with the door to no 1 boarded. The ground floor windows are original 12-pane casements with intersecting wooden tracery heads and returned slatestone labels above slate lintels. The right ground floor window to no 3 is modern, installed in an enlarged opening resulting from a late 19th or early 20th century shop alteration. The first floor windows are set under the eaves and are original 12-pane sashes with projecting sills.

Nos 5-7 form a symmetrical group, with no 6 (Si-yr-Afon) advanced to the centre beneath a wide gable. This central unit has a two-window front with central entrance and a stringcourse above the first-floor windows. A recessed dedication plaque with returned label sits in the gable apex. The ground and first floor windows here are enlarged and modern, fitted with plaster architraves, as is the door. Nos 5 and 7 are single-window units with returned labels to the ground-floor windows and outer entrances; both have modern doors and glazing, with plain sashes to the upper floor.

With the exception of no 2, which retains its small sash windows to the rear, each unit has modern rear extensions. The extension to no 7 is particularly large and storeyed.