Plas Gwyn

Cadw's description

Location

Located in pasture fields at the end of a track on the south side of the A 4086 approximately 1km west of Llanrug.

History

Shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, the farmhouse, originally known as Ty Gwyn, is likely to have been built in the late C18- according to Edmund Hyde Hall, shortly before 1789. Lloyd George is said to have been a frequent visitor.

Exterior

2 storey and gable-lit attic 3-window front with single-storey and 2-storey lean-tos to rear, the latter linking with single-storey outbuilding; single-storey gabled range attached to left gable end of main house. Rendered rubblestone with slate hanging to right gable end; slate roofs with slate coping and integral end stacks to main house. Horned 12-paned sashes with louvered shutters to first floor; ground floor windows original tripartite sashes in shallow segmental-headed recesses; central 6-panel door, in similar recess, has rectangular overlight and side lights with glazing bars, the whole of the ground floor protected by a slate slab-roofed verandah, projecting to the corners and supported on 4 pairs of cast-iron columns, narrowly spaced to centre and more widely spaced to ends. 16-paned sash window to ground floor of left gable end and brick roundel to end wall of single-storey gabled range. Outbuilding has substantial ridge stack with tall brick shaft.

Interior

Relatively unaltered interior. Dogleg staircase with cut string, plain circular newel, stick balusters and moulded handrail rises from central hall to attic. Right ground-floor room has elliptical arch with 2 half-columns towards back of room; recessed cupboard to end wall. Name "Jane Williams/Ty Gwyn" scratched in original glass to front window. Fireplaces C20 but original panelled window shutters and plain ceiling cornices with 6-panel doors throughout to ground and first floors; boarded doors to attic.

Reason for designation

Included as a well-preserved example of a late C18 gentry farmhouse, built in the late Georgian idiom and displaying a number of polite features and fine detail.