Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24697
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2001
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Gwyndy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanuwchllyn
Town
Bala
Locality
Llanuwchllyn
Easting
287860
Northing
330058
Street Side
W
Location
Set within its own grounds within the village, not far from the station.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House built in 1907 for Sir Owen Morgan Edwards (1858-1920), a native of Llanuwchllyn. Edwards was a significant scholar and educationalist and served as first Chief Inspector of Schools, as well as being history tutor and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and, for a short time, MP for Merioneth. He is regarded as having had an enormous influence on the promotion of Welsh language and culture at a particularly vulnerable time. Neuadd Wen (a pun on Whitehall, where he spent much time), was built by Edwards as his retirement home to designs by Samuel Evans, the County Architect. Gwyndy was split off from the main house in the post-War period.
Exterior
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* as forming part of an Edwardian Arts and Crafts house of considerable sophistication by the architect Samuel Evans, retaining largely unaltered exterior and interior character; the home of Sir O M Edwards, historian, writer, MP and educationalist.
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