Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Privy at Bryn Iorcyn Manor
Llanfynydd, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bryn Iorcyn, Llanfynydd, Flintshire, designated on 23 February 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 23 February 1998
- Locality
- Bryn Iorcyn
- Community
- Llanfynydd
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.10510, -3.04577
- Cadw reference
- 19381
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in the NE corner of the south-eastern walled garden at Bryn Iorcyn Manor.
History
Possibly of C17 or C18 date. The windows have been glazed with single sheets of glass during the C20.
Exterior
Privy of roughly coursed rubble with slate roof with stone copings and kneelers. The elevation to the house and garden is symmetrical with a central door flanked by tall windows. Left and right-hand return elevations are gabled. The privy is built into the garden wall.
Interior
A 3-seater lavatory is set against the rear wall. This is of panelled timber and treated in the manner of a settle. It appears to be of C17 or C18 date.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C17 or C18 privy which is little-altered and contains what appears to be an original or early lavatory.
Group value with Bryn Iorcyn Manor House, Dove House and N S and E gardens at Bryn Iorcyn Manor.
Nearby in the register
- Dove House at Bryn Iorcyn ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn Iorcyn ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall and Gatepiers E of Bryn Iorcyn ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall and Gatepiers S of Bryn Iorcyn ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.