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
18303
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/04/1997
Date of Amendment
08/04/1997
Name of Property
Bryn Conwy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Ysbyty Ifan
Town
Locality
Ysbyty Ifan
Easting
284272
Northing
348803
Street Side
Location
Prominently sited in the centre of the village on the S side of the main street, immediately E of Pont Ysbyty Ifan; now embedded within a later terrace.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late C17 or early C18; 1774 datestone relates to later alterations.
Exterior
Storeyed end chimney house of whitened rubble with medium-pitched old slate roof; large chimneys with weathercoursing and plain capping. Near-central entrance to three-window front, with C20 part-glazed door; above, a (renewed) lead plaque with the incised date 1774. Recessed, square, late C19 4-pane sash windows with projecting slate cills; first-floor windows under the eaves. Long outshut to rear at R with modern wood and corrugated iron lean-to adjoining to L; modern cat-slide dormers to roof.
Interior
Beamed ceiling to L room (former hall), with stopped-chamfered main beams and plain joists. Large inglenook with ogee-stopped chamfered bressummer bearing later scratch date 1774 and initials 'RW'. Primitive dog-leg stair to narrow central bay, opposite entrance. Of oak with crude newel, flat slat-balusters and boarded undersides; small balustraded gallery to landing and boarded cupboard door under stair.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a late C17/early C18 vernacular house retaining historic character.
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