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
167
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1968
Date of Amendment
02/07/1998
Name of Property
Ty Mawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Betws Yn Rhos
Town
Abergele
Locality
Ty Mawr
Easting
293671
Northing
375205
Street Side
W
Location
Located at the eastern boundary of the community on a rise to the W of the A548; accessed via a long farm track.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late medieval cruck-framed hall house encased in rubble in the second-quarter or mid C16 and turned into a storeyed end chimney with chimney backing on entry plan house. Extensive modernisation.
Exterior
Storeyed house of roughcast rubble construction with timber-framed cruck-built core; slate roof of small slates with kneelered gable parapet to the L. Large projecting end chimney to the L with gabled breast and tall, diagonally-set stack (the top slightly reduced); further reduced chimney to the centre. The front is of 4 bays with the entrance via a large out-of-character modern porch to the L; within is the original pointed-arched cyclopean entrance, modern glazed door. All the windows have out-of-character modern uPVC glazing. To the rear is a later single-bay, gabled addition forming an L-plan with the original block. This has modern lean-to extensions to the side. To the rear of the main block, and extruded between it and the 1-bay addition is a large out-of-character modern storeyed extension, which effectively turns the house into a double pile plan.
Interior
Stopped-chamfered ceiling beams and joists to former hall (R of entrance), with stopped-chamfered bressummer to wide fireplace of central chimney; this has a depressed Tudor arch. The cruck principals are apparently visible in the attic, though they were cut off when the roof was raised in the C19 (this was not inspected at the time of survey).
Reason for designation
Notwithstanding recent alterations Ty Mawr is retained on the list for its importance as a C16 storeyed house with medieval cruck-framed origins.
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