Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Farm Office at Glynllifon College Farm
Llandwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 September 1998
- Locality
- Glynllifon
- Community
- Llandwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07498, -4.30222
- Cadw reference
- 20487
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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
Situated end on to the farm track at the entrance into the upper of the two inter-linked farmyards. Glynllifon College Farm is approximately 200m uphill from the house and reached via a track beside the kitchen gardens.
History
There is a date of 1852 on a porch in the lower farmyard which gives a likely date for much of the complex although there was presumably a pre-existing estate farm and the style of the arched entrance to the lower farmyard is diagnostic of the work of the 2nd Lord Newborough suggesting that part of the farm is likely to date from before 1832. The use of horizontally sliding sash windows suggests that this building is one of the earlier ranges within the farm.
Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.
Exterior
Single-storey gable-ended rubble building with slate roof and rendered chimney stack on south-west end. The eaves are wide in the manner characteristic of the mid C19 estate buildings as are the horizontally sliding sash windows surviving on the north-west side. Offset on the south-west gable end is a gabled porch with side entrance and narrow window to front. North-east gable end is altered.
Interior
Not accessible at time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other farm ranges at this good example of an early to mid C19 former estate farm.
Nearby in the register
- Two parallel farmyard ranges to north-east corner of Glynllifon College FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cartsheds and attached range on south-east side of upper farmyard at Glynllifon College FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pair of Hay-barns in centre of upper farmyard at Glynllifon College FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Northern Range to lower farmyard, including attached cross-range to east, at Glynllifon College FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.