Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas-yn-Acre
Bala, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 December 2001
- Community
- Bala
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.90898, -3.59752
- Cadw reference
- 26023
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road behind a narrow garden plot.
History
Large Georgian townhouse apparently formerly called Plas-yn-Acre; the house was probably divided into two dwellings in the second-quarter C19 at which time the openings were modernised and entrances were created on the side elevations. Plas-yn-Acre has been modernised within the last few years.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of Plas Teg and Plas-yn-Acre.
Reflected pair of two-and-a-half storey houses, originally one single house. Of rubble construction under a high hipped slate roof with tall, panelled chimneys to the centre and sides. The 4-bay front elevation is symmetrical, with each unit occupying two bays. The windows to Plas Teg are unhorned original sashes with fine glazing bars; those to Plas-yn-Acre have recently been replaced with out-of-character PVCu tilting copies. The ground floor central bays have wooden canted bay windows with 20-pane main and 10-pane side sections. The outer ground floor windows are of 20 panes, and first floor windows are of 16, with 9-pane windows to the upper floor; these are contained within large finialled gabled dormers, with deep verges and moulded bargeboards.
Side entrances with panelled doors and reveals and open, flat-roofed porches carried on plain wooden pilasters. Similar upper floor window arrangement to the whitened rear elevation, with an additional modern first-floor entrance to Plas-yn-Acre; this with part-glazed door and metal fire escape. Plas Teg has a later single-storey lean-to extension with part-glazed door and flanking 6-pane windows; modern wooden conservatory extension to the L.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a former Georgian townhouse of distinctive design.
Group value with Plas Teg adjoining.
Nearby in the register
- Plas TegDomesticunder 1 mi
- 43 Tegid StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 41 Tegid StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 39 Tegid StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.