Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Colwyn
Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Beddgelert, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 April 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1952
- Locality
- Beddgelert
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Beddgelert
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.01212, -4.10312
- Cadw reference
- 3678
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently-sited in the village centre, set back slightly from the main street behind pebbled-dashed and hedged forecourt walls.
History
Regency villa built c1830 as part of a speculative development of the village on this side of the river by the Sygun estate on its Perthi Farm property. This development, to which the earliest of the C19 buildings in the village belong, was intended to serve the increasing numbers of tourists who were coming to Snowdonia in the second quarter of the century.
Exterior
Two-storey, 3-bay Regency villa, with storeyed lean-to pavilion wings recessed to the sides. Of coursed, rough-dressed stone blocks (originally stuccoed) under a shallow-pitched, hipped roof of graded slates; deep bracketted eaves and plain end chimneys with weather coursing. Symmetrical facade with central entrance to raised ground floor, via 8 slate steps; modern 6-panel door (upper 4 glazed), with rectangular fanlight with decorative intersecting glazing bars. The original 12-pane unhorned sashes survive to both floors, all with projecting slate sills; those to the first floor are slightly smaller and are tucked under the eaves. Narrow, horizontal basement lights flank the entrance, with modern glazing. The flanking pavilion wings are of 2 low storeys with lean-to slate roofs. That to the R has a modern part-glazed entrance with an original 16-pane sash above; that to the L has a similar sash to the ground floor and a fixed (later) 8-pane window above. This side has a modern window under the eaves on its L return, and has a small single-storey lean-to addition extruded in the rear angle between it and the main block.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a well-preserved Regency villa within a good village streetscape.
Group value with other listed items in the centre of Beddgelert village.
Nearby in the register
- Plas GwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Colwyn Guest HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Waterloo House (Beddgelert Antiques and Tea Rooms)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Prince Llewelyn HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.