Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Ysgol
Ysbyty Ifan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 April 1997
- Locality
- Ysbyty Ifan
- Community
- Ysbyty Ifan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02381, -3.72911
- Cadw reference
- 18322
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Sited commandingly on a hillslope at the western edge of the village; set back from the road and raised up on a revetted bank.
History
An almshouse complex was originally erected in Tir Ifan in 1709 by the will of Captain Richard Vaughan of Pant Glas, a blind Royalist veteran of the civil wars and one of the Poor Knights of Windsor. He also gave 'the use of two hundred pounds for ever to maintain six poor aged men of this parish.' These almshouses were in due course superseded by a new range, built by Mrs Catherine Vaughan of Pant Glas, presumably in the late C18, which form the core of the present range. The original almshouses (of Captain Vaughan's foundation) were dissolved by the Charity Commissioners and sold, being subsequently demolished in 1885. In 1880, using the transfered endowment and the proceeds of the sale of these, Edward Gordon, Baron Penrhyn, rebuilt Mrs Vaughan's range and gave it its present appearance.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a C19 range of almshouses in a commanding location above the village.
Nearby in the register
- Bryn YsgolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn YsgolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Wheelwright's Workshop.Industrialunder 1 mi
- Former Corn MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.