Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lodge to S of Plas Tan-y-bwlch
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 25 February 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2005
- Locality
- Tan-y-bwlch
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94361, -4.00648
- Cadw reference
- 84007
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)
- 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)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In private grounds set above the N side of the A487 (T), the lodge is set at the E side of the S drive up to the main house at Plas Tan-y-bwlch.
History
Late C19 lodge set at the entrance to the S drive to Plas Tan-y-bwlch. The lodges were built as part of an ambitious programme of building and rebuilding of estate properties that was undertaken after William Edward Oakeley inherited the estate in 1878.
Exterior
Estate lodge, in ornamental gothic style, characteristic of the Tan-y-bwlch estate in the later C19. Picturesquely planned, with T-plan main section and lower rear wing. Rubble masonry with sandstone dressings, steep slate roofs, projecting eaves with ornamental barge-boards; tall axial stacks. One and a half storeyed, the higher main section has advanced gable (forming a cross wing) at the east, with mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights; west wing has canted bay window to ground floor, and 2-light mullioned window above; expressed stack on its south wall with blank shield. Entrance is to the north of this range, abutting the lower service wing. Steeply gabled porch with moulded pointed arched doorway. Service wing (of inferior stonework) has altered casement windows, single dormer within the roof, and axial chimney.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Reason for designation
Included as a late C19 lodge with strong gothic character, that forms an integral component of the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate.
Nearby in the register
- Garden Terrace to S and E of Plas Tan y bwlchDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former coach house and stable range at Plas Tan-y-bwlchEducationunder 1 mi
- Former servant's quarters to rear of Plas Tan-y-bwlchNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Plas Tan-y-Bwlch including attached terrace walls to east and westEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.