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
19593
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1998
Date of Amendment
01/04/1998
Name of Property
Maesmor Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llangwm
Town
Locality
Maerdy
Easting
301398
Northing
344611
Street Side
Location
The mansion stands in its own grounds alongside the S bank of the Afon Ceirw, and is reached by a driveway from beside Pont Maesmor on the road from Maerdy to Bala.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The house was built c1870, probably for General John Manners, with later additions.
Exterior
Built of pebbledashed stone with stone ashlar dressings and a slate roof. Tudor Gothic style. The house consists of a rectangular 3-storey block with single-storey side extensions, and a 3-storey wing necked off at the rear, all with angle corner buttresses. Five-bay front facing SSW, the centre bay a storeyed porch open on the ground floor, also with angle buttresses. Framed cross windows to the first floor of the porch with pedimented cornice, and a corbel table, and similar cross windows to the sides of the porch block. The ground and first floors of the main block have similar cross windows with margin glazing within chamfered stone surrounds and label mouldings over each window. Two-light attic windows, each with a small eaves gable and cusped bargeboards; this is repeated on the top floor of the porch. Tall yellow-brick shafted chimney stacks. Single storey bays, gabled at right angles at each end, with added bow windows. To the rear, the service block has a paired gable stack and a tall gothic window with 'Y'-tracery in the gable end. Twelve-paned sashes to the side elevations.
Interior
Contemporary interior, with a large dining room on the rear elevation approached by an ante-room linked to the kitchen at the rear.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a large and handsome gentry house in the Tudor Gothic style.
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