Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryntirion
Buan, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 July 1998
- Locality
- Boduan
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Buan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91323, -4.49800
- Cadw reference
- 20119
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the SW side of A497, some 500m NW of St Buan's Church, Boduan.
History
Earlier to mid C19 estate house, built for the Newborough Estate at Boduan.
Exterior
Estate house in late Georgian style. Built of large local granite rubble boulders with purple slate hipped roof with projecting eaves and pebbledashed end chimneys. Two storeys, double-fronted with 2 x 16-pane hornless sashes each floor and centre boarded door with 2-pane overlight. Small timber gabled porch with panelled sides. Pebbledash left end wall. Rear right has 12-pane sash. Gabled rear two-storey wing and single-storey outbuilding. SE side of rear extension has a 12-pane hornless sash on each floor. Small C20 porch on right with C20 door. Outbuilding to left is white-washed, with double-door and stable-door.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a smaller house in late Georgian style, retaining original character.
Nearby in the register
- Automobile Association Telephone Call BoxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Out-buildings at Home Farm, Plas BoduanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St BuanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Plas BoduanDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.