Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stanley House
Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1951
- Locality
- Tywyn
- Town
- Tywyn
- Community
- Tywyn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.58754, -4.08422
- Cadw reference
- 4648
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
Fronting the street opposite a sharp bend in the road.
History
Built as one of a pair with No 6 in the early C19 and shown on the 1841 Tithe map.
Exterior
A late-Georgian 3-storey 2-bay house of distinctive large coursed blocks of unworked rubble stone with stone lintels, beneath a slate roof on overhanging eaves, with stone end stacks, shared to the R. The lower storey was altered to form a shop front and has been rendered. It has a replacement door to the L in a wider splayed opening, and 2 small-pane windows to its R. In the middle storey are 12-pane horned sash windows, and in the upper storey shorter 12-pane horned sash windows. The L gable end is set back to the R side, and a lower former bakery is attached.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a town house retaining definite C19 character, and for its contribution with other buildings in Corbet Square, Red Lion Street and Maengwyn Street, to the historical integrity of the old town centre.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Red Lion StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Somerset House and house adjoining to its LNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White Hall HotelNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 5 Maengwyn StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.