Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Coroniad
Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangernyw, Abergele, Conwy, designated on 17 March 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 March 1999
- Locality
- Llangernyw
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Llangernyw
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.19240, -3.68697
- Cadw reference
- 21476
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The house stands on an elevated site on the N side of the minor road leading W from Llangernyw, approximately 100m W of the village centre.
History
Pair of Hafodunos estate cottages built between 1900 and 1910. Designed by William and Segar Owen of Warrington and similar in character to much of their work at Port Sunlight. Now a single house.
Exterior
Vernacular Revival style house. Two storey with first floor accommodation partially within roof spaces. Rectangular on plan. Ground storey and gables built of local stone rubble with painted chamfered brick cambered arches and dressings to windows. Nucleus of house has tiled half hip roof with ridge aligned roughly E-W; central brick ridge stack with shallow corner pilasters, oversailing courses and clayware pots. Symmetrical front elevation, facing S, breaks forward with twin asymmetrical half-timbered gables, two replacement casement windows and 'M'-shaped tile roof at right angles to main roof. Timber barge boards and three shaped timber brackets. Gables rest on timber bressumer running full width of facade at first floor level. Battered rubble ground floor elevation has two tripartite 2/2 sash windows set in recess, with a central timber post beneath the bressumer. N slope of main roof has two half-dormers of brick with gabled tile roofs and paired 2/2 sash windows with painted brick cambered arches and dressings. Single storey porch with half hip roof parallel with main roof attached to W gable end. Boarded door. E gable end has central 2/2 sash windows to each storey and flanking replacement mullion and transom windows.
Interior
Interior not accessible for inspection at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved early C20 Vernacular Revival house by William and Segar Owen of Warrington in a prominent location in Llangernyw village.
Nearby in the register
- Pen Uchar LlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ivy CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Siop UchaCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of St DigainReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.