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
160
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/06/1952
Date of Amendment
15/05/1998
Name of Property
Plas Harri
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llannefydd
Town
Locality
Pont-yr-Aled
Easting
296287
Northing
370733
Street Side
Location
Located on high ground at a cross-roads approximately 1.5km W of Llannefydd village, its rear overlooking the Aled valley; set back slightly from an unclassified lane behind low rubble forecourt walls.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Originally named Plas-ar-yn-Rhiw, the house is mentioned as 'Plas Harry' in 1629. The present house is a rebuilding of 1764 for John ap Evan ap John ap Robert Jones, as recorded in an inscribed tablet above the door. His son John Roberts, a noted cleric and writer, and vicar of Tremeirchion, was born here in 1775; he died in 1829. The house was altered and extended c1840.
Exterior
L-shaped storeyed house of local rubble construction under a modern slate roof; squat end chimneys. The main, road-facing section is of 3 bays with a central entrance; modern 15-pane glazed door. Above the entrance is a slatestone tablet inscribed: 'I.R. Build [sic] this House 1764'. Flanking this are 16-pane unhorned sash windows to the ground floor, with contemporary 12-pane windows to the first floor, under the eaves; all save that to the ground-floor R are c1840, the latter is a later C19 horned replacement. Rough stone voussoirs and projecting stone sills. The later block, advancing at right-angles to the L, has a central and an end chimney. Glazed door as before to entrance at L with modern windows to R and to first floor. Blocked former opening to the front gable (external entrance?) with segmental head; blocked oculus to L of this, with brick voussoirs. Modern windows to rear faces of both blocks, with a modern entrance to each; roughcast.
Adjoining the main range to the R is an L-shaped single-storey rubble addition which links the house with the adjacent stable and carthouse block; corrugated asbestos roof. Adjoining this to the front is a further, modern addition. Adjoining the front-facing gable of the later block is a modern slated lean-to.
Interior
Plain oak stair to main section, enclosed C19; to the R of the entrance hall an original pegged doorframe, otherwise plain modern interiors.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a dated C18 vernacular house, birthplace of John Roberts, the cleric and author.
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