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Highgate

A Grade II* Listed Building in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9215 / 52°55'17"N

Longitude: -4.2693 / 4°16'9"W

OS Eastings: 247533

OS Northings: 338416

OS Grid: SH475384

Mapcode National: GBR 5J.MTNL

Mapcode Global: WH44D.DT7Q

Plus Code: 9C4QWPCJ+H7

Entry Name: Highgate

Listing Date: 19 October 1971

Last Amended: 31 March 1999

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4355

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004355

Location: The house is in a row on the NE side of the main street, E of the bridge.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Criccieth

Community: Llanystumdwy

Community: Llanystumdwy

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

The house became the childhood home of David Lloyd George in 1864 when, following the death of his father, he was brought to his mother's home village to live with his uncle, Richard Lloyd, shoe manufacturer, until he left home in 1880. David Lloyd George was born in 1863, entered parliament by a narrow majority as the Liberal member for Caernarfon Boroughs in 1890 and became Prime Minister during the Great War in 1916, serving in this post to 1922. During his time as MP he is best remembered for introducing legislation setting up the Old Person's Pension (1908), the People's Budget (1909), and the National Insurance Act (1911), as well as his active prosecution of the war. He returned to live in Llanystumdwy in 1944, dying here in 1945.

Exterior

The house is built of river boulders, the front remodelled c1810-1820 when it was raised to two storeys with roughly coursed galletted rubble. The original grouted slate roof was replaced in slate in the 1980s. The front is of two storeys, 2 bays, with a central framed and boarded door and 16-pane sash windows to both floors, the doors and windows renewed. Between the upper windows, a painted wooden trade sign reading RICHARD LLOYD / GWNEUTHURWR. Below, a recent slate panel identifying the building as Cartref David Lloyd George 1864-1880. The rear clearly indicates the two builds. Gable stacks.

On the left, a single-storey cobbler's shop with a similar boarded door and large 18-pane shop window. Low gable end stack.

Interior

The interior consists of a main living room to the left of the door with a slate floor and a Coalbrookdale range in the stack. The stair with its stick baluster rail is opposite the front door, and a parlour to the right retains its original iron fireplace and a boarded partition dividing off a service room at the rear. The upper floor rooms retain matchboarded ceilings, partitions and doors, and a fireplace in the E bedroom.

The workshop is open to the roof, with a large stone stack and firebeam. The central truss has bolted collars, one re-used, and two tiers of purlins. The inner lintels over the openings are round pole timbers. Undergoing refurbishment at the time of inspection.

Reasons for Listing

Included at Grade II* as a good vernacular village house restored to reveal its C19 character, and as the childhood home of one of the most important radical MPs and Prime Ministers of the C20.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Ty Canton
    The house stands at the end of a row of houses on the N side of the main street of the village.
  • II Tai Newyddion
    A row of four cottages alongside the village street, attached to Highgate on the right, and to the village shop on the left.
  • II Tai Newyddion
    A row of four cottages alongside the village street, attached to Highgate on the right, and to the village shop on the left.
  • II Tai Newyddion
    A row of four cottages alongside the village street, attached to Highgate on the right, and to the village shop on the left.
  • II Tai Newyddion
    A row of four cottages alongside the village street, attached to Highgate on the right, and to the village shop on the left.
  • II The Feathers Inn
    The inn lies at the E end of the village, on the S side of the village street.
  • II Tabernacl
    The Tabernacl, also called Capel Bach, lies back from the S side of the street past a row of two cottages set end-on to the road.
  • II Caernarfon Gates and Gate Piers to Amgueddfa Lloyd George
    The gate piers and gates stand back from the pavement and immediately W of the museum, opposite Capel Moriah in the centre of Llanystumdwy.

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