Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Llanystumdwy
- Town
- Criccieth
- Community
- Llanystumdwy
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91883, -4.30098
- Cadw reference
- 4363
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
The house stands on rising ground mid-way between Llanystumdwy and Chwilog, and 400m N of the toll house on the A497 crossroads.
History
Built c1700. Formerly the residence of John Lloyd Jones of Broom Hall, and said by Hyde Hall to be a 'sort of dependency of Plas Hen', now Plas Talhenbont.
Exterior
Built of roughly coursed rubble stone, with slated roofs with red clay ridges and tall gable stacks. The main front is of 3 bays, symmetrical, with a central door, now converted to a window, with main rooms on each side of the passage leading through to the the rear wing. Tall 12-pane sashes each side on the ground floor, 9-pane single sash windows to the first floor. The centre rises as a wide pediment and contains a circular window. At the rear, a single bay centrally placed rear kitchen range, further extended at a later date by a second bay with a hipped roof, to which a lean-to has been added. In the E re-entrant angle, a lean-to containing the main entrance door. Further to the rear, stone external steps leads to a loft in the second rear extension.
Nearby in the register
- Old Tollgate CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tomen FawrRingworkunder 1 mi
- Bont FechanTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Rhyd-y-croesauTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.