Tŷ Hyll

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Street side view, 2012

The Tŷ Hyll [ tɨː hɪɬ ], including English (The) Ugly House called, is a historic cottage in Snowdonia National Park in North Wales . Selected from natural stone blocks built house is on the highway A5 between Capel Curig and Betws-y-Coed . Both the Welsh and the English name translate to mean "ugly house".

Traditionally it is said that the Tŷ Hyll was built in just one night in the late 15th century. The occasion was a custom, according to which anyone who succeeds in building a house on common land within one night receives a legal claim to the house and land. Such buildings, which are also known from the other Celtic nations , are called tai unnos (“one night houses”) in Wales . However, the historicity of the custom is questionable; there is no evidence of this in the legal history of England and Wales . The tai unnos are probably a construction of the 19th century, which among the poor rural population of that time was considered “right and cheap ” and was often claimed, but whose success depended on the tolerance of the landowner.

A construction date in the 18th or early 19th century is more realistic, possibly at the time the road was built by Thomas Telford in 1819–21. The legend about its origin probably served from the beginning to give the Tŷ Hyll a romantic look and to promote tourism.

In 1966 the house was entered on the British List of Monuments at the lowest level, Grade II . The reason given was that the Tŷ Hyll is of "special architectural interest as a cottage in the Picturesque style of the early 19th century" and of "historical interest by his early association with the tourism in North Wales."

From 1988 to 2010 the Tŷ Hyll was the seat of the Snowdonia Society, a non-profit organization with the aim of preserving and caring for the landscape and culture of the region. After they moved out, the company had the house renovated; Since 2012 a café with beekeeping has been operated there.

Web links

Commons : Tŷ Hyll  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tai unnos (One-night houses). In: John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines, Peredur I. Lynch (Eds.): The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 2008, pp. 850-851.
  2. ^ RU Sayce: The One-Night House, and Its Distribution. In: Folklore, Volume 53, No. 3, September 1942, pp. 161-163.
  3. ↑ a b Ty-Hyll (The Ugly House). British Listed Buildings. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  4. ^ Tŷ Hyll history. Snowdonia Society website. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

Coordinates: 53 ° 6 '2.5 "  N , 3 ° 51' 34.2"  W.