Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Bach
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Pwllheli, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 20 February 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 February 1974
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76050, -4.78892
- Cadw reference
- 4391
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on W side of track, about half-way between the limekiln and the Abbey ruin.
History
Estate farmhouse built c1870-5 as part of the general rebuilding of the farms on the island by the 3rd Baron Newborough. Of the 11 new houses, 8 were semi-detached, 3 detached including Plas Bach, Carreg Fawr and the chapel house. Plas Bach is said to have been the superior house intended for the factor or visiting owner, with superior interior fittings and the only pumped well.
Exterior
Farmhouse, whitewashed stucco with slate roofs, slate gable copings and brick stacks, one on N end, one on ridge and one on E end of crosswing. Two storeys, T-plan with crosswing across S end. Timber windows with small panes and mullion and transom divisions, some altered. W front has 3-light window each floor to crosswing to right, larger to ground floor, similar 3-light window to ground floor left of main range with 2-light above. Porch is to right in angle, gabled with slate roof and square-headed entry, half-glazed door with overlight. S end wall has altered window each floor. E end of cross-wing has slightly lower gabled projection with rubble stone E gable wall, and similar 2-light window over 3-light. Main range has similar windows each floor to right. Rear openings have brick sides and slab lintels.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a late C19 estate farmhouse, part of the remarkable group of estate farms on the island.
Nearby in the register
- Walls to Plas BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to SDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
- CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.