Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Mynach Lodge
Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hendremynach, Barmouth, Gwynedd, designated on 31 January 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1995
- Locality
- Hendremynach
- Community
- Barmouth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.73027, -4.06233
- Cadw reference
- 15498
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back slightly from the main road behind a rubble wall splayed inwards to R and terminating in a dressed stone gatepier with conical capping.
History
1880s lodge to Plas Mynach, built for W H Jones to designs by John Douglas, architect of Chester.
Exterior
Single-storey plus basement; roughly rectangular in plan. Snecked rubble facings and whitened limestone dressings, with slate roof and tiled ridges; oversailing eaves anddeep verges with exposed rafter ends. Single and 2-light mullionedwindows with 8 and 16-pane glazing. Projecting, gabled porch baytowards road with entrance to W face; C20 glazed double doors. Plainrectangular central stack.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as part of Douglas' Plas Mynachcomplex.
Group value with Porth Mynach.
Nearby in the register
- Porth MynachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas MynachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St Tudwal including attached presbyteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.