Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn-Gwyn (including front Garden walls and stone outbuildings
Gwernaffield with Pantmwyn, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 June 1995
- Town
- Pen-y-Fron
- Community
- Gwernaffield with Pantmwyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18200, -3.20253
- Cadw reference
- 16134
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from a road running E off Pen-y-Fron Road. Reached from a by-road running through Pantymwyn to Rhydymwyn.
History
History: later C18 probably with earlier origins, the house is said to be a former Mine Master's house. It is the best preserved of the small group of buildings associated with the Pen-y-Fron or Bryn Celyn lead mine which was owned by Richard Ingleby and was at the peak of its production during the late C18 and early C19.
Exterior
Painted render over stone rubble, slate roof, rendered chimneys. Nearly symmetrical elevation with central door flanked by 16-pane sash windows; upper floor has 3 12-pane sash windows, the central one placed off-centre in relation to the door below. The windows are C20 reproductions of the originals. Set back and attached to the right is a low range with two doors leading to a pair of brick vaulted cold stores. Extension, perhaps early C19, to rear. To the right is the remains of a walled kitchen garden, there is a stone garden wall running in front of the house, and to the left are two stone outbuildings, one of them possibly a former pigsty.
Interior
he house retains the elements of the C18 plan with a central passage from the front door and rooms off to each side. There is a stair with simple reeded balusters to the rear. Rooms to the front of the house have panelled shutters.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a later C18 house which retains a range of associated features, and for its connections with the Pen-y-Fron lead mines.
Nearby in the register
- Pen-y-Fron Baptist Chapel (including burial ground walls).Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Llyn-y-Pandy Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (including attached chapel house, forecourt walls & gate)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Hesp AlynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bath HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.