Built to accommodate quarrymen and made from large mountain boulders with a slate roof.
Llainfadyn cottage roof.
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.
It is solidly built of mountain boulders and a pair of stout oak trusses supports the roof of small locally quarried slates.
The colour and material of the roof complement the structural integrity of a building.
Williams was a slate quarry worker.
Both structure and space are media of architecture.
It is by reason of its structure that a building stands.
The half loft partition and chimney breast are also made of wattle work.
Front or north west elevation has square headed doorway with small sash window with glazing bars to north east of it.
It is solidly built of mountain boulders and a pair of stout oak trusses supports the roof of small locally quarried slates.
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A roof is an integral part of a building and people try to personalise the roof designs to achieve optimum architectural splendour.
Slate gabled roof with stone stack at north east end.
There is a second small window in the rear wall.
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.
Whitewashed walls of stone boulders built directly on the earth with a thicker base for a foundation.
Cow byre llainfadyn cottage built in 1762 a hundred years later it had ann and hugh williams six children a maid and a lodger.
This cottage comes from snowdonia and was built in 1762 the date being carved on the right hand side of the fireplace lintel.
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Poorly constructed roofs endanger the people living in a building so you need to make the roof compatible to the rest of the building in a well engineered style.
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.
If i d have seen a built to scale model of this before the real thing i d probably dismiss it as being unrealistic.
Llainfadyn cottage rhostryfan gwynedd north west wales.
