Llainfadyn Cottage Roof

The colour and material of the roof complement the structural integrity of a building.

Llainfadyn cottage roof.

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. This cottage comes from snowdonia and was built in 1762 the date being carved on the right hand side of the fireplace lintel. Structure and space are in symbiosis a mutually affective relationship. 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 rhostryfan gwynedd north west wales. The cottage also had a cowshed pig sty and a few acres of land ct7e1n from alamy s library of millions of high resolution stock photos illustrations and vectors. Download this stock image.

Built to accommodate quarrymen and made from large mountain boulders with a slate roof. The half loft partition and chimney breast are also made of wattle work. If i d have seen a built to scale model of this before the real thing i d probably dismiss it as being unrealistic. Whitewashed walls of stone boulders built directly on the earth with a thicker base for a foundation.

Williams was a slate quarry worker. There is a second small window in the rear wall. This cottage comes from snowdonia and was built in 1762 the date being carved on the right hand side of the fireplace lintel. 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 by reason of its structure that a building stands. Both structure and space are media of architecture. 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. The original occupants worked on the nearby taliaris estate on whose land the cottage was built probably about 1770.

A roof is an integral part of a building and people try to personalise the roof designs to achieve optimum architectural splendour. It is solidly built of mountain boulders and a pair of stout oak trusses supports the roof of small locally quarried slates.