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Trefan

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9298 / 52°55'47"N

Longitude: -4.2612 / 4°15'40"W

OS Eastings: 248106

OS Northings: 339330

OS Grid: SH481393

Mapcode National: GBR 5J.MHCD

Mapcode Global: WH44D.JM28

Plus Code: 9C4QWPHQ+WG

Entry Name: Trefan

Listing Date: 19 October 1971

Last Amended: 31 March 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4366

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004366

Location: Trefan lies along a driveway leading N off the road running E from the bridge in Llanystumdwy, and situated on the scarp overlooking the Afon Dwyfor.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Criccieth

Community: Llanystumdwy

Community: Llanystumdwy

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Mansion

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History

The estate at Trefan was brought into being by John Wynn, a man of the Earl of Pembroke in c1537. In the C17 it was held by the Owens family. The house was built by Zaccheus Hughes in the 1770s who inherited the estate from his elder brother Owen, who died without issue aged 25 in 1756. The N wing is perhaps part of an earlier house on the site, and the fine E block was raised by a second floor probably in the early C19 by the Priestley family, who moved into the house after 1811 and enlarged it. In 1846 it was inherited by Samuel Priestley, who became High Sheriff of the county in 1849. It is one of a number of such Late-Georgian-Regency style houses erected in the area, along with Trallwyn Hall, Broom Hall, and Plas Bodegroes, perhaps under the influence of the architect Joseph Bromfield.

Exterior

The house consists of a imposing main block of 3 storeys, 5 window bays, facing E, a 2-storey rear wing facing the gardens to the S, and a 1-storey and loft N range extending N from the rear wing, which is probably part of an earlier house on the site. The main frontage is rendered, with a slate roof and deep boxed eaves and two asymmetrically placed stacks. The entrance is a round-headed partly glazed pair of doors set under a wide open pedimented porch on Tuscan columns. The doors have a fanlight over, with intersecting Gothic glazing bars. Sash windows to all three floors, 15-pane to the ground floor, 12-pane above, and 9-pane to the second floor. An added canted single-storey bay window with a parapetted flat roof on the S gable end faces the garden. The rear wing is of 3 bays, the two storeys rising to 3 as the ground drops to the W. Central door to the garden. The N wing has been partially rebuilt after an earthquake in the 1970s.

Interior

Not seen at the time of inspection. Said in previous descriptions and by RCAHMW to have a columned hall, and stair hall with an open-string stair and a continuous handrail, a roof lantern over. Some marble fireplaces.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a very good example of a late Georgian country house.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II* Ty-newydd
    The house is reached from a drive off the road leading W of the village centre, past Lloyd George's grave.
  • II* Grave of David Lloyd George
    The grave is on the N side of the road leading E from Pont Llanystumdwy, and on the wooded high bank of the Afon Dwyfor.
  • II Pwllheli Gates and Gate Piers to Amgueddfa Lloyd George
    The Pwllheli gates form the N entrance to the museum grounds from the road running E from Pont Llanystumdwy, and directly opposite the grave of David Lloyd George.
  • II Ty'n Llan
    The house stands behind and on the N side of the Church of St John the Baptist at the centre of the village.
  • II Pont Rhyd-y-benllig
    A road bridge across the Afon Dwyfor, some 7.3km N of Cricieth and S of Rhoslan hamlet.
  • II Church of St John the Baptist
    The parish church stands conspicuously in its graveyard on the N side of the Afon Dwyfor in the centre of Llanystuymdwy.
  • II Milestone
    The milestone stands immediately at the W end of the N parapet of the bridge, under a road sign.
  • II Pont Llanystumdwy
    The bridge carries the main street of the village over the Afon Dwyfor.

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