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
18323
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/04/1997
Date of Amendment
08/04/1997
Name of Property
Bryn Ysgol
Address
2 B 4407
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Ysbyty Ifan
Town
Locality
Ysbyty Ifan
Easting
284122
Northing
348781
Street Side
W
Location
Sited commandingly on a hillslope at the western edge of the village; set back from the road and raised up on a revetted bank.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An almshouse complex was originally erected in Tir Ifan in 1709 by the will of Captain Richard Vaughan of Pant Glas, a blind Royalist veteran of the civil wars and one of the Poor Knights of Windsor. He also gave `the use of two hundred pounds for ever to maintain six poor aged men of this parish.' These almshouses were in due course superseded by a new range, built by Mrs Catherine Vaughan of Pant Glas, presumably in the late C18, which form the core of the present range. The original almshouses (of Captain Vaughan's foundation) were dissolved by the Charity Commissioners and sold, being subsequently demolished in 1885. In 1880, using the transfered endowment and the proceeds of the sale of these, Edward Gordon, Baron Penrhyn, rebuilt Mrs Vaughan's range and gave it its present appearance.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a C19 range of almshouses in a commanding location above the village.
Group Description
Nos 1-3 Bryn Ysgol
Long single-storey terrace of former almshouses; originally six one-window units, arranged as three reflected pairs, presently converted to three units. Rubble construction with continuous medium-pitched slate roof and three equally-spaced shared chimneys; simple moulded cornicing with weathercoursing. The present openings are arranged as follows (from L): window (former door); window; window; door; window (former door); window; window; door; window (former door); window; window, door. Boarded C20 doors with upper glazed panels and 4-pane casement windows; slate lintels and cills. Placed between the two right-hand units is an engraved slate dedication tablet of 1880, within a shaped-pedimented sandstone frame. On the N gable end is a fine armorial slate dedication tablet with lengthy inscription and the arms of the Vaughans of Pant Glas. This is the original dedication tablet of Captain Vaughan's almshouses (of 1709), relocated here in 1880. Rendered rear with modern entrances and windows.
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