Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Iolyn
Henryd, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llechwydd, Henryd, Conwy, designated on 28 December 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 December 1995
- Locality
- Llechwydd
- Community
- Henryd
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26187, -3.84270
- Cadw reference
- 17716
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1899 · 94 Beaumaris (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located approximately 1.5km N of Henryd to the E of Henryd road; set back from the road in its own grounds.
Exterior
Exterior: Late Regency villa-scale country house c.1830; altered and extended late C19. 2-storeys and roughly C-shaped around a rear service court. Rendered rubble construction with shallow-pitched, hipped roofs; deep, bracketed and compartmented eaves, plain rendered chimneys. Rusticated quoins, moulded stucco surrounds to primary windows and cill-course to first floor. Symmetrical main (W) facade with plain, part-glazed panelled door and plain-glazed flanking windows within a single-storey 8-bay late-Victorian enclosed veranda; this with plain sash windows and dividing Tuscan pilasters. Three 12-pane primary sash windows to the first floor with external wooden shutters. Storied, canted late C19 bay window to the S return with sash windows as before beyond, primary to the first and later to the ground floor. Asymmetrical rear with tall 8-pane sashes and further 12-pane windows. Large first-floor 24-pane casement window to the N return of the rear range. Small service court with late C19 infil to former open N side; boarded doors. Further windows as before to the NW return, though that to the first floor at R is blind with traces of fictive, painted glazing.
Interior: Plain Regency interiors with simple swept-rail stair; stick balusters.
A small Regency country house with later C19 alterations retaining much of its external character.
Nearby in the register
- CyffredinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas CelyninDomesticunder 1 mi
- Henryd FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Independent Chapel including walled graveyard attached to EReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.