Llandegai model village was built in the 1840s by Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant after he acquired the Penrhyn Estate in 1840. The village was constructed in a `vernacular revival? style which conformed to the Picturesque ideal. It was built within the loop of the road to Conwy from where it branched off Telford's newly built Holyhead to London road. Each house was built in a similar style but none was to be identical. They were furnished with ample gardens and the layout was such that no house's front door faced another. The village containes neither a public house or a chapel which is unusual for North Wales.

RCAHMW, 2011.