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Latitude: 53.2524 / 53°15'8"N
Longitude: -3.984 / 3°59'2"W
OS Eastings: 267732
OS Northings: 374659
OS Grid: SH677746
Mapcode National: GBR 0ZMT.8T
Mapcode Global: WH543.SH1Z
Plus Code: 9C5R7228+XC
Entry Name: Former Stable Block at Bryn-y-Neuadd Hospital (includes Yard Cottage & Bryn-y-Neuadd Cottage)
Listing Date: 14 April 1992
Last Amended: 14 April 1992
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3516
Building Class: Health and Welfare
ID on this website: 300003516
Location: At end of main entrance drive to Bryn-y-Neuadd Hospital.
County: Conwy
Community: Llanfairfechan
Community: Llanfairfechan
Built-Up Area: Llanfairfechan
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Stable
Former stable and service block to Bryn-y-Neuadd Hall, built by John Platt from 1858 onwards; alterations to hospital use after Hall became hospital in 1890's.
Arranged round courtyard. Arched entrance range faces SW (site of former house). Snecked local stone with pale freestone dressings, slate roof. Stone chimneys at ridge, to L octagonal, to R, rectangular. Gabled archway (chimney at apex of gable) with 4-centred entrance arch flanked by low buttresses; blank escutcheon in gable. To R, wall runs up into 2 dormers, L dormer corbelled forward. Ground floor has square-headed windows flanking arch. Left return gabled with single first floor window, pale limestone dressings (1850's), and two square-headed ground floor windows with golden limestone dressings (1890's). Rear (courtyard) elevation has pointed arched window over entrance arch flanked by lower 4-centred arches, that to L blocked, that to R with wooden doors.
South corner block with pyramidal roof. Doorway to L (elliptical arch with hoodmould over), and asymmetrical fenestration on two floors. Return to SE has groups of round-headed windows and at W corner, stair tower with pinnacled pyramidal roof. South-east range, two-storey, crenellated, faced in random rubble laid to courses, golden limestone dressings. Striking array of eight stone rectangular chimneys. Six bays, second and fifth bays semi-hexagonal in plan with stepped gables with arrow loops. Remaining bays have paired sash windows (entrance door in fourth bay). Attached parallel range at rear, slightly lower, with paired square-headed windows facing onto courtyard. West corner block has SE-facing gable with unusual 2-light window; lower lights have trefoils, when inverted trefoils above which are shouldered arches. To L of gable, crenellated tower (staircase tower projects above R corner) Narrow Berkeley arch type entrance door flanked by buttresses. Corner buttress at E angle. Return to NE has gable with 2-light shouldered-arch window above ground floor window with group of three lancets. One Gothic arched, and one shoulder-arched door. Single-storey gabled former power-house to R. Wall with gatepiers (stepped pyramidal caps with ball finials) links SE and NW ranges. North-west range of 2 linked blocks. Entrances face courtyard. L block has almost central dormer with window; Gothic-arched door below flanked by square-headed windows (further door to L). Wall with doorway links to similar but asymmetrical block with dormer, square first floor opening with label, door with 4-centred arch and hoodmould over, square headed window. Gable end (NE) has datestone '1858', and initial 'P', for John Platt; semi-hexagonal bay window below. Rear elevations have smaller windows of 1850's (pale limestone dressings), and somewhat larger openings of 1890's (golden limestone dressings).
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