Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Courtyard outbuildings and retaining walls to adjacent formal garden area at Glan Gwna Hall
Waunfawr, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caeathro, Waunfawr, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 July 1999
- Locality
- Caeathro
- Community
- Waunfawr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13426, -4.24112
- Cadw reference
- 22058
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The courtyard outbuildings are situated on the south-east side of Glan Gwna Hall and the formal garden area lies to their south-west.
History
Built c1893 as outbuildings and retaining walls to small formal garden area at Glan Gwna Hall.
Exterior
Courtyard of stone outbuildings on 3 sides (the 4th side is formed by the house itself), the single-storey elevation facing the formal garden area (the ground level is higher in the garden than in the courtyard) having bracketed hipped dormers breaking the eaves above 3-light leaded windows, 2 to the left and one to the right of offset boarded door under gabled bracketed hood, itself breaking the eaves; tall pyramidal spirelet above to ridge. Formal garden to front is of roughly square plan enclosed by retaining wall with simple flat-headed balustrading. Non-courtyard side of main range of outbuildings has 4 flush rooflights with vertical bars in roof slope.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved set of outbuildings and linked retaining walls defining formal garden area, the whole forming a strong group with the adjacent Glan Gwna Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Glan Gwna HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Terrace and retaining walls at Glan Gwna HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Block at Glan Gwna HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate piers and walls at entrance to Glan Gwna HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.