Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1155
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/12/1989
Date of Amendment
22/12/1989
Name of Property
Bryn-Dwr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llangollen
Town
Locality
Easting
321696
Northing
341988
Street Side
Location
At the end of the street, opposite the E end of the Parish Chuch. Stepped down from Maesmawr House. C19 iron railed forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C17 origins and early C19 heightening and refronting.
Exterior
2 storey, broad 2 window scribed render front with rusticated quoins. Slate roof (slightly undulating), bracket eaves and very tall central rendered brick chimney stack. Recessed 9 pane sash windows to 1st floor, 12 pane to ground floor, all offset to the right. Half glazed double doors with some coloured glass; doorcase with bracket pediment and glazed double doors with some coloured glass; doorcase with bracket pediment and pilasters. Finial to left gable end, also with rusticated quoins. Tudor label over 12-pane 1st floor sash and similarly glazed splayed bay below. Set back to left is the gable end of a parallel range to rear and a stepped back cross gable.
Interior
Internally it is of lobby entry plan form. The main room is to the left; the fireplace has a deep lintel and a blocked stone staircase; deep chamfer to cross beams intersecting at centre. The rear of this room retains two earlier walls )recently uncovered at time of inspection - January 1989), the inner one has C19 Gothic wallpaper perhaps suggesting a former ecclesiastical occupant of the building; the outer wall is half timbered over a rubble base - wattle and daub retained. Broader fireplace to the kitchen at right with higher ceiling and slate flagged floor.
Reason for designation
Group value with Measmawr House, No 6 and the Parish Church.
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