Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn House
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74170, -3.88783
- Cadw reference
- 4943
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set above the street line behind a railed terraced forecourt between the two branches of Love Lane.
History
Dignified early Cl9 town house.
Exterior
3 storeys and cellar, 3 window. Coursed rubble masonry. Later hipped slate roof, oversailing eaves on cavetto stone cornice. Later? paired stone stacks set along the ridge, moulded caps.
Shallow upper sashes to 9 pane 2nd floor windows set under eaves. l2 pane sashes to lst floor windows, stone lintels, slate sills. Similar detail to broader ground floor windows, but with stone slab reveals. Central pedimented porch on slender Tuscan columns and pilasters. Rectangular fanlight with latticed glazing. Later part glazed panelled door.
Victorian vertically paned sash to right end elevation; doorway alongside to kitchen at rear of house.
Small paned sashes to rear elevation, central stair window truncated to form cross window with modern doorway cut below.
Large walled garden to rear with long, narrow gabled outhouse to rear left of house. Slate roof extends to form porch on metal bracket over doorway to kitchen at SW corner of house.
Interior
Broad depressed hall arch, twin-reeded pilasters. Moulded architraves with deep panelled reveals and soffits, 6 paned doors. First flight of contemporary dog leg staircase partitioned off. Panelled window splay with concealed shutters. Moulded cornice to main rooms, reeded to hallway.
The ground floor is currently a separate flat.
Reason for designation
Group value with terrace to right.
Nearby in the register
- Stables to Bryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- House Adjoining Erw-Wen to leftDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach House to Bryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Erw-WenDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.