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5, St George's Terrace, Old Barmouth, GWYNEDD, LL42 1BN

A Grade II Listed Building in Barmouth, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7208 / 52°43'14"N

Longitude: -4.0511 / 4°3'3"W

OS Eastings: 261566

OS Northings: 315653

OS Grid: SH615156

Mapcode National: GBR 8T.1M5Y

Mapcode Global: WH56L.RW32

Plus Code: 9C4QPWCX+8H

Entry Name: 5, St George's Terrace, Old Barmouth, GWYNEDD, LL42 1BN

Listing Date: 31 January 1995

Last Amended: 31 January 1995

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 15476

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300015476

Location: Situated towards the top of the old town, beneath Rock Cottages whose terrace wall it is built against; enclosed to the SE by a high walled garden.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Barmouth (Bermo)

Community: Barmouth

Locality: Old Barmouth

Built-Up Area: Barmouth

Traditional County: Merionethshire

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History

The cottage was originally one of the 13 St. George's Guild Cottages which formerly served a community founded by John Ruskin. From 1871 Ruskin published his socialist theories in a series of letters - the Fors Clavigera - which were addressed to 'the working men of England'. In that year he founded the Guild of St George, 'a society established to carry out certain charitable acts', and the community at Barmouth was his first social experiment. It was made possible by the donation in 1874 of the land and cottages by Mrs Talbot of Tyn-y-Fynnon, a friend of Ruskin's and a sympathiser with his beliefs.

Exterior

An early C19 rubble-built cottage with late C19 alterations. On one-and-a-half storeys with slate roof hipped to the NE; plain end chimney to SW with weather coursing. 2 small C20 skylights to front- facing roof pitch. Plain entrance front facing NW with advanced projection to L and an adjacent, slightly recessed boarded door; 2-pane rectangular fan above. 2 window rear (garden) face with late C19 fenestration; 4-pane recessed casement to ground floor with, to the R, an entrance obscured by a modern corrugated plastic extension. 2 gabled dormers above with 4-pane recessed casements breaking the eaves; triangular top-lights and plain bargeboards.

Reasons for Listing

The best-preserved cottage which belonged to Ruskin's guild and consequently of considerable socio-historic interest.

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