Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn meirion
Llanegryn, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanegryn, Tywyn, Gwynedd, designated on 26 July 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 July 2000
- Locality
- Llanegryn
- Town
- Tywyn
- Community
- Llanegryn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.62966, -4.06568
- Cadw reference
- 23767
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The house, one of a pair, lies on the S side of the road out of Llanegryn village towards Peniarth.
History
The pair of cottages comprising Bryn meirion and Maes-y-haf, were built by the Peniarth estate in c1870-90 probably for workers on the estate.
Exterior
Bryn meirion is the right hand member of the pair. Built of roughly course rubble with large rubble quoins, and a slate roof. One storey and attic, each cottage consists of a single bay containing a front and back room, accessed from the side via a timber door with a glazed panels. Cast iron lozenge pattern glazing to all windows, 3-light to the main front living room, 2-light above within a gable, and a similar window to the upper floor of the end gable. On the ground floor of the gable, a mullioned and transomed window with iron Gothic pattern glazing with small cusps. All windows have sawn slate lintels. Large yellow-brick stack with six shafts on the party wall. Later pebble-dashed extension to the rear.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved pair of late C19 estate cottages retaining characteristic Gothic detail.
Nearby in the register
- Maes y HafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farm buildings associated with Trychiad IsafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Trychiad IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel Bethel, with vestry and front railed forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.