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
18334
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/04/1997
Date of Amendment
18/04/1997
Name of Property
Cae Gwyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Y Felinheli
Town
Locality
Y Felinheli
Easting
252729
Northing
367779
Street Side
SE
Location
Situated towards NE of Y Felinheli on SE side of main road, Stryd Bangor, some 100m NE of the War Memorial and next to Ffinfa. Set behind stone front wall with Gothic timber gate.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Vaynol estate house of c1870, built as a pair with Ffinfa, to E, but varied in detail.
Exterior
Pink square rubble stone with slate roofs and brick stacks. L-plan, two-storey, picturesque estate house. A crosswing projects to right with ornate bargeboards in three curves, two close-set first floor plate glass long sashes with stone voussoirs and ground floor large canted bay. This has hipped canted roof, 2-pane side lights and wide 4-pane front light, pilasters between. Fretted brackets to eaves. Crosswing has brick ridge stack. Set-back to left is entrance wing with half-hipped left end and rear-wall stack. Two-window range, upper floor with two 4-pane sashes breaking eaves, right one under hipped roof, left one slightly taller under half-hipped roof. Ground floor has panelled door with stained-glass in overlight to right and half-round bay to left. Bay has similar but smaller sashes to crosswing bay, similar pilasters and eaves brackets, but flat roof with crenellated parapet.
Right side of crosswing has slate-hung walls, large half-hipped gable and smaller hipped half-dormer. 4-pane sashes.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of a pair of later C19 estate houses showing attractive variety and asymmetry typical of the type. Group value with Ffinfa and Nos 1 & 2 Bodarborth.
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