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Plas yn Blaenau

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangernyw, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1671 / 53°10'1"N

Longitude: -3.6931 / 3°41'35"W

OS Eastings: 286911

OS Northings: 364675

OS Grid: SH869646

Mapcode National: GBR 68.4HCH

Mapcode Global: WH65S.7NMC

Plus Code: 9C5R5884+VQ

Entry Name: Plas yn Blaenau

Listing Date: 17 March 1999

Last Amended: 17 March 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21464

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300021464

Location: On an elevated site at the end of a track 200m E of the minor road linking the B5384 to the A548, approximately 1km ENE of Pandy Tudur.

County: Conwy

Town: Abergele

Community: Llangernyw

Community: Llangernyw

Locality: Pandy Tudur

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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History

A large farmhouse built in the C18 or early C19.

Exterior

Three storey, 3-bay farmhouse with central staircase double depth plan and symmetrical facades. Built of local stone rubble with pebble-dash render on elevations. W elevation painted. Hand riven slate roof and brick gable chimney stacks. Three storey front elevation facing E has three 4/8 pane sash windows under eaves lighting the attic storey and 8/8 pane windows on the first and ground floors. Window openings reduce in size in each successive storey. First and ground floor window openings have cambered heads. Central boarded door with C19 slate roofed timber canopy with gothic style gable truss and later rendered brick flank walls. Two storey rear facade facing W with three 8/8 pane sash windows to first floor and a central 3/3 pane window flanked by two 8/8 pane windows to ground floor. Windows have very fine glazing bars and many surviving crown glass panes. Single storey extension with slate gabled roof adjoining S gable of main house.

Interior

Central timber staicase with turned balustusters. Ground rooms have plaster ceilings with central chamfered timber beams parallel to facade, six-panel doors with moulded architraves, and fireplaces. Ground floor front rooms have folding panelled window shutters in splayed reveals and chair rails on walls. Doors on first floor have contemporary HL hinges. Attic storey has open rafter roof in three bays with through purlins and principle rafters braced with raking struts. Match-boarded partitions with ledged and battened doors.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a fine and unaltered example of a large late C18 or early C19 farmhouse, and for group value with its range of important farm buildings.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Cow Byre and Mill at Plas yn Blaenau
    The byre and adjoining mill building form part of a row of farm buildings built into rising ground below the farmhouse. Byre united to adjacent byres to S by stone staircase rising from farmyard to
  • II Cow Byres and external stone stair at Plas yn Blaenau
    The byres stand in a row of farm buildings built into rising ground below the farmhouse. The buildings are parallel with and approximately 20m E of the farmhouse, with garden between.
  • II Hendre Blaenau
    The farmhouse stands on sloping ground 50m S of the B5384, approximately 0.5 km E of Pandy Tudur village.
  • II Pont Ty'n-y-ddol
    The bridge carries the minor road, by-passed by the A548, between Llangernyw and Llanrwst over the Afon Gallen, 2km S of Llangernyw village centre.
  • II Milestone
    The milestone stands to the W side of the A548, approximately 2km SSW of Llangernyw village centre.
  • II Ty'n y Llidiart
    The cottage is located approximately 200m E of the B5384, about 2km N of Gwytherin village centre at the end of a curving track.

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