Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ynysgain, Criccieth, Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, designated on 31 March 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 March 1999
- Locality
- Ynysgain
- Town
- Criccieth
- Community
- Llanystumdwy
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91855, -4.25681
- Cadw reference
- 21608
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The house lies back from the main Criccieth to Pwllheli road, E of Llanystumdwy.
History
The house was built in 1851, extended with service range in 1852. It was built for John Williams, a ships surgeon, and apparently the first in a line of medical practitioners living in this house. The date of 1851 appears on a garden feature, and of 1852 on a plaque on the service wing.
Exterior
Substantial house in the Georgian tradition. Dark coloured coursed rubble with lime joints. Lined-out render to first floor of garden front. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves with paired modillion brackets. Paired ridge stacks. Velux roof lights to attic. Two storeys with attic within the roof. 3 bays, with lower service range to the west. The entrance front faces N and is symmetrical with a central stone Tuscan porch and parapet, with recessed paired margin glazed doors, replicas of the original inner doors, which have margin glazed overlight. 12-paned margin light sashes flanking the porch, and to the first floor, with painted reveals. Lower service wing to the right is hipped with one bay to the right of the wall defining the forecourt of the house with 6-paned sash, and a second bay outside the wall. Porch in return elevation, with 16-pane sash over. Its rear elevation is lined-out render, with 20-pane sash to first floor (modern window below). Rear elevation of main house has verandah at ground floor, raised over basement storey. Timber columns to glazed lean-to roof, with small conservatory incorporated into left hand angle. The 3-window elevation has French doors to the right, and 12-pane margin light sash windows elsewhere.
Interior
The house is planned with axial hall running parallel to the front wall and staircase offset to right, enabling principal rooms all to face the garden and the view to the sea. Original internal joinery includes shutters to all windows, and there is one original fireplace, marble with Japanese tiles said to have been brought back on one of the voyages of John Williams.
Reason for designation
Listed as a generously proportioned and well detailed mid C19 gentry house on the prosperous coastal belt of the S Lleyn.
Nearby in the register
- Ynysgain ganolAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Farm Buildings at Bron-Eifion FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bron-Eifion HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ynysgain FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.