Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Butler's House within walled garden, opposite Dairy Cottage.
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1992
- Locality
- Vaynol Park
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20300, -4.19040
- Cadw reference
- 4196
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
Located NW of Vaynol Old Hall, and S of Vaynol Farm. It is set within a walled garden, the left gable end forming the NE boundary of the garden opposite Dairy Cottage.
History
Built in the late C19 as a dwelling for the estate butler.
Exterior
Rubble stone with some ashlar dressings, and a slate roof. Two storeys, 'L'-plan, the front of 3 windows with distinctively hipped hoods to the upper windows which rise above the eaves. Central 4-panelled door with overlight, and 4-paned horned sash windows, including to a canted bay window to the left. The S boundary wall of the garden is attached to the right gable end. Cross range at rear, similarly detailed. A further service range steps down beyond, returning at a near right angle to meet the W wing of Vaynol Old Hall.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Dairy Cottage and the Gates and gate-piers at the NE entrance to the walled garden, and part of the remarkably complete appurtenances of Vaynol Park.
Nearby in the register
- Walled garden opposite Dairy Cottage, with two sets of gates.Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Dairy Cottage with garden walls to rear.Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Chapel of St Mary to N of Vaynol Old HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Stone bench seat on W side of Terraced Garden at Vaynol Old HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.