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Latitude: 53.1358 / 53°8'8"N
Longitude: -4.1406 / 4°8'26"W
OS Eastings: 256898
OS Northings: 361992
OS Grid: SH568619
Mapcode National: GBR 5P.6GN4
Mapcode Global: WH54M.CFJV
Plus Code: 9C5Q4VP5+8Q
Entry Name: Pen-y-Clip
Listing Date: 4 November 1999
Last Amended: 4 November 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22638
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300022638
Location: Situated at western end of Fachwen on wooded slope immediately by the side of the Brynrefail to Dinorwic Road on the north side of Llyn Padarn; there is a large rock outcrop immediately behind the cot
County: Gwynedd
Town: Caernarfon
Community: Llanddeiniolen
Community: Llanddeiniolen
Locality: Fachwen
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Not shown on the 1838 Tithe Map, the cottage is likely to have been built before 1850, Fachwen having been purchased by the Vaynol Estate in 1840 as a convenient place in which to establish its by then preferred pattern of quarrymen's cottages without land situated close to the Dinorwic Quarry. As part of this process, the Estate in c1842 divided Fachwen up into about 30 holdings on which the quarrymen were allowed to build individual cottages under Estate control. The cottage appears to be of 2 distinct phases, the earlier part to the left and of 2-room plan with integral end stacks, the right room with no stack and possibly originally an outbuilding.
Single-storey 3-room plan, aligned roughly east-west. Irregularly coursed rubblestone with buttered pointing; slate roof. Front has tall C20 6-paned casements to left on either side of central boarded door and another similar but shorter 6-paned window to right, the 2 parts separated by straight joint and ridge stack which, like the integral end stack to left, is rendered.
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Included as a well-preserved example of the small quarryman's cottage without land typical of the post-1840 phase of Vaynol Estate-authorised settlement associated with Thomas Assheton Smith's continued development of the Dinorwic Slate Quarry; Fachwen is a particularly important survival from this process of landowner-controlled settlement.
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