Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Egwys
Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bryn y Maen, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, designated on 25 July 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Locality
- Bryn y Maen
- Town
- Colwyn Bay
- Community
- Colwyn Bay
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27095, -3.74729
- Cadw reference
- 14724
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the corner with Mochdre Road, c100m N of the Church.
History
Built 1898-99 at the expense of Mrs Eleanor Frost (the patron of Christ Church, Bryn y Maen), for her own use, and designed by Douglas and Fordham, architects, of Chester.
Exterior
Roughcast render with rock-faced stone dressings and slate roof with axial and rear gable stacks. The design evokes an Elizabethan house with 2-storeyed, 3 gabled main range, and ‘Tudor’ detailing. Central single storeyed porch, with 4-centred archway with swept hood mould, dated with monogram in the apex of the coped gable. Beneath the gables to either side, the ground floor windows are paired mullioned and transomed lights, with ogee arches in segmental heads to the upper lights, and the upper windows are paired 2-light mullions. Wide central dormer in the roof above the porch, with paired 2-light mullioned windows. 4-light mullioned and transomed stair window in right hand gable return, and paired mullioned and transomed windows to rear wing. Service wing to left hand return with various 2 and 3-light mullioned windows.
Interior
The house is planned with a wide central entrance hall and a spinal corridor running along the rear of the main range, with the main staircase leading off to the right, and a secondary staircase to the left. A moulded timber arch marks the foot of the main staircase which has turned balusters and heavy newels; some stained glass in stair window.
Reason for designation
The house is a good example of the Neo-Elizabethan work of Douglas and Fordham, with a characteristic robustness in its use of materials and the massing of the plan. Historically significant in its association with the church and vicarage at Bryn y Maen, which form a remarkable group of buildings commissioned by Mrs Eleanor Frost.
Nearby in the register
- Christ Church VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Grianllyn FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Grianllyn Farm (W side)Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.