Wales Has An Ugly House - And Yes That's Really Its Name!
But, although it may look somewhat peculiar, the name Ugly House does not apply to its appearance.
On our latest trip to Wales, my wife and I stopped off at this funny looking cottage that sits next to the main road.
According to the notice board there are a number of possible origins for the name of the house. The first is that the house was a robbers hideout and as these were 'ugly people' the name was given to the building. The second possibility is that the name is a corruption of the Welsh name given to the river nearby - Llugwy. The third reason could be that the Welsh name for rough or crude - hyll - which could be applied to the rough boulders that make up the house, can also mean ugly.
No one knows who actually built the house but it was first written about in 1853.
It is now run by the Snowdonia Society as a tea room.
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