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
19994
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Plas yr Wylan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Aberdaron
Easting
217599
Northing
327197
Street Side
Location
Situated some 150m SE of Aberdaron New Church.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Later C19 former vicarage. The home of the poet the Rev R S Thomas from 1967-78, when vicar of Aberdaron.
Exterior
Former vicarage, walls entirely hung in purple slates, with close-eaved slate roof, coped gables and rendered stacks, at end walls, on ridge right of centre and cross-axial on rear roof slope. Two-storey, five-window front of 4-pane sashes, larger on ground floor and half-glazed centre door with overlight in altered cemented porch with flat roof and 5 cemented steps up. N rear wall is also 5-window and similar but has arched doorway in fourth bay. Half-glazed door and plain fanlight. End walls have one window each floor.
Interior
Reason for designation
A substantial later C19 vicarage of character, included for literary historical interest as the former home of R S Thomas.
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