Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stables at Plas Tirion
Llanrug, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 27 August 1999
- Locality
- Llanrug
- Community
- Llanrug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14192, -4.20653
- Cadw reference
- 22243
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the north-east side of the yard on the other side of the track to the east of the house at Plas Tirion.
History
Built c1880 for Hugh Barrow Rowlands for his riding horses at a cost of £400.
Exterior
Long rectangular building, aligned north-west to south-east. Regularly coursed and dressed rubblestone blocks; slate roof with slate-coped verges. Symmetrical front has central boarded door with narrow rectangular overlight, flanked by original slate-cilled stable windows, 2 to each side; internal purple brick end stacks and squat ridge ventilator in line with door.
Interior
Pavior floor with 3 stalls and 2 loose boxes; continuous feeding trough to rear wall with white tile backing. King-post roof structure.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved, purpose-built late C19 stables, having strong physical and functional association with the house and other structures at Plas Tirion.
Nearby in the register
- Stables/coach house at Plas TirionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled garden at Plas TirionGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Plas TirionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard wall, railings and memorial enclosure at Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.