Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatehouse at Glyn Cywarch
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 November 1966
- Locality
- Glyn Cywarch
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88774, -4.06882
- Cadw reference
- 4844
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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
In private grounds set well back from the NE side of the B4573, to S of Glan-y-wern and SE of Eisingrug; the gatehouse is directly SE of the house at Glyn Cywarch.
History
Early C17 gatehouse, contemporary with the main range at Glyn Cywarch for which it was built. Originally with low flanking wings, the rooflines of which were raised during the estate improvements of the 1870s.
Exterior
C17 gatehouse. 3 storeys with attics to central section, with lower flanking stable and cartshed wings. Built of mortared rubble masonry with large stones as quoins and lintels and sandstone dressings. Slate cruciform roof with stone copings and tall square stacks with dripstone and cappings to L (SW) and R (NE) gables; wings have corbelled eaves. The principal elevation faces the yard to SE, the rear elevation faces the house to NW. The main entrance is offset to L (SW) with riven stone voussoir-arched head with plain hoodmould; mullioned window of 2 lights to R. The upper storeys have mullioned windows of 3-lights with hoodmoulds, the height diminishing at each storey.
To L (SW) is the stable wing, the central doorway has a 4-centred arched head and is flanked by mullioned windows of 3-lights; there is a further window of 2-lights at a higher level to far R. Above the entrance is a mullioned window of 4-lights set in a gabled dormer that breaks the eaves line. There is a plain label over and advanced copings that form a pediment surmounted by a raised ball finial and houses a datestone in the tympanum that bears the initials and date: J.R.O.G. M.P. / 1871.
The cartshed (garage) wing has two wide cartshed bays with mullioned 1st floor windows of 3-lights above. To centre there is a similar gabled dormer to the stable range, housing a mullioned window of 3-lights and with a datestone that bears the date: 1877.
Interior
Modernised late C19 and early C20.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C17 gatehouse, an integral part of the architecturally ambitious complex of buildings at Glyn Cywarch.
Nearby in the register
- Glyn CywarchDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled garden at Glyn CywarchGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Estate Yard Range (2) at Glyn CywarchNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Estate Yard Range (1) at Glyn CywarchNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.