Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brynhyfryd, including Brynhyfryd Cottage and attached stable and coach house
Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tywyn, Gwynedd, designated on 24 June 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 24 June 2005
- Locality
- Tywyn
- Town
- Tywyn
- Community
- Tywyn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.58395, -4.08606
- Cadw reference
- 84534
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
In its own small grounds 300m W of the war memorial hospital.
History
A mid C19 house first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A late-Georgian style 2-storey 3-window house of distinctive local rubble stone, slate roof and stone end stacks, and similar stack to the end of the rear wing. The central entrance has an added portico on wooden posts, and frieze of raised diamond panels. Panelled pilasters of an original doorcase can be seen behind it. The fielded-panel door has a margin-lit overlight. Each storey has 16-pane sash windows, hornless in the upper storey and replacement horned sashes in the lower storey, under cambered brick heads painted white.
Set back on the L side is a 2-storey 3-window extension (Brynhyfryd Cottage) of rendered walls and slate roof with 2 tall stacks of brick over stone. Doors and windows are replacements. Set further back to the L is a lower stable and coach house of rubble stone with brick dressings, and slate roof. The R gable end of the main house is continuous with an integral rear wing, which has replacement small-pane windows facing the road. In its gable end is a round-headed, margin-lit sash window with radiating glazing bars, lighting the stair. A lean-to is against the lower storey of the wing and to its R is an outshut behind the main range.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved mid C19 house retaining definite Georgian character.
Nearby in the register
- Memorial at entrance to War Memorial Cottage HospitalNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at rear of The VicarageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- 24 High StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.