Tan-y-bryn

Tan-y-bryn & Bron Derw, Abergwyngregyn.

Pair of deliberately asymmetrical estate cottages forming a rough L-plan, comprising long range roughly parallel with road (Bron Derw) and projecting gabled range with short continuation of long range to left (Tan-y-bryn); the whole built in the mild Gothic style adopted by the estate for much of its village building, although in this case also showing an awareness of the emerging Arts and Crafts movement. Snecked rubblestone with large slate-stone lintels; slate hung on first floor save for short continuation of long range to Tan-y-bryn; slate roofs with bargeboards to overhanging verges, those to gable ends of Tan-y-bryn also with decorative king-post trusses to apexes. Bron Derw has wide gabled dormer breaking eaves to right with inset 2-light 12-paned window directly above similar 3-light window on ground floor; roughly central C20 half-glazed door under bracketed lean-to hood in angle with slightly projecting lean-to break on left, which has 2-light 12-paned window on ground floor and 3-light flat-roofed dormer with pediment to centre directly above; integral end stack to right has rendered base and 2 diagonal brownish brick shafts with stepped capping; similar stack on left behind ridge has 3 diagonal shafts. Tan-y-bryn has two 2-light 12-paned casements centrally placed on first floor of projecting gable with 2- and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars to left and right respectively of narrow chamfered rectangular window on ground floor; hip-roofed largely glazed porch to left return in angle with short continuation of long range, which has integral stack with paired diagonal shafts and two 2-light 12-paned windows on first floor of left gable end; prominent stack with 3 clustered diagonal shafts in roof slope to right return of gabled range.

Interior not inspected at time of Survey.