Llainfadyn Cottage Roof

It is solidly built of mountain boulders and a pair of stout oak trusses supports the roof of small locally quarried slates.

Llainfadyn cottage roof.

Download this stock image. Llainfadyn cottage rhostryfan gwynedd north west wales. The half loft partition and chimney breast are also made of wattle work. This cottage comes from snowdonia and was built in 1762 the date being carved on the right hand side of the fireplace lintel.

A roof is an integral part of a building and people try to personalise the roof designs to achieve optimum architectural splendour. In this cottage called llainfadyn the purpose of the structure of the building is to organise a portion of space identifying it as a place for dwelling. The roof is supported by timbers joined together to form two sets of scarfed crucks on which wattle gorse and finally straw thatch were laid. Llainfadyn cottage was built in 1762 in rhostryfan gwynedd and rebuilt at a museum in 1962 if you think getting on the property ladder today is tough spare a thought for early modern welsh rural.

If i d have seen a built to scale model of this before the real thing i d probably dismiss it as being unrealistic. Cow byre llainfadyn cottage built in 1762 a hundred years later it had ann and hugh williams six children a maid and a lodger. It is solidly built of mountain boulders and a pair of stout oak trusses supports the roof of small locally quarried slates. This cottage comes from snowdonia and was built in 1762 the date being carved on the right hand side of the fireplace lintel.

Williams was a slate quarry worker. The colour and material of the roof complement the structural integrity of a building. There is a second small window in the rear wall. Structure and space are in symbiosis a mutually affective relationship.

Whitewashed walls of stone boulders built directly on the earth with a thicker base for a foundation. Both structure and space are media of architecture. The original occupants worked on the nearby taliaris estate on whose land the cottage was built probably about 1770. Slate gabled roof with stone stack at north east end.

It is by reason of its structure that a building stands. Built to accommodate quarrymen and made from large mountain boulders with a slate roof.