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.
Date of Designation
19/11/1998
Date of Amendment
19/11/1998
Name of Property
Glyn Pedr
Community
The Vale of Grwyney
Location
Approximately 0.2km NW of Llanbedr church, set back from E side of a minor road from village.
History
Mid-late C19 and shown on Ordnance Survey of 1887.
Exterior
Picturesque Gothic style house of 2 storeys, roughly square in plan with 2-span roof oriented E-W. Of coursed, rock-faced sandstone and slate roofs which have gable stacks at either end, and a ridge stacks offset to W side of each span. All stacks have 2 detached diagonal shafts (replaced in brick on NW side). Three-bay front facing N, of which the central bay is advanced slightly under a gable and has cusped barge boards and finial. Three-light mullioned and transomed windows have hood moulds with 4-leaved flowers to the stops. Between storeys is a thin string course. A central single-storey porch has an embattled parapet with projecting angle turrets. Doorways in each face have flattened elliptical arches and doors of glazed small panels. To L and R of the porch are tall narrow windows. Beneath the gable of the central bay is a blank shield.
The L side wall has openings flanked by the external stacks. A blind doorway beneath an elliptical head is centrally placed. To its R is a 2-light casement, to its L a door with glazed panels, both under lintels. In the upper storey, centrally-placed beneath the valley of the roofs, is a 2-light casement with Gothic Y-tracery. The 3-window garden front behind has 3-light mullioned and transomed windows similar to front, of which the lower storey windows are larger and under hood moulds, and the windows to centre and R incorporate glazed doors. The upper-storey windows are under gablets. The gablet to L has a small attic casement, to centre and L the gablets have small blank shields. The R side wall has external stacks and integral single-storey projection.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (November 1997).
Reason for designation
A large Victorian house retaining good original character and detail.
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