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
3153
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/05/1951
Date of Amendment
03/11/1995
Name of Property
Brynmor
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Penmaenmawr
Town
Locality
Easting
271781
Northing
376307
Street Side
N
Location
Located in the centre of the town at right-angles with the street, and facing E behind a rubble garden wall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
At early site, Brynmor was predominant in the locality long before the establishment of the town. The present house is probably early C17 and is presumably that mentioned in an indenture of 1625 as a possession of John Williams, Archbishop of York and Lord Keeper. Some internal cosmetic alterations were carried out probably in the second quarter C18; Mid and late C19 extensions and alterations, including two additional storeyed wings.
Exterior
Interior
Evidence of a former cross-passage plan; late C19 pine staircase grafted onto cut-down primary oak post-and-panel screen in passage (now entrance hall). Former hall to the L with large stopped-chamfered inglebeam to fireplace; a mural stair (to the L) disappeared long ago and now only a recess remains. C18 plaster cornice and plastered ceiling beams forming a compartmented ceiling. In the R ground-floor room, the uprights survive to a former post-and-panel partition separating the parlour from a service bay; these will simple grooved decoration. C18 wig closet in upper L room (occupying former stair space); pine shelving one surviving bracket.
Reason for designation
A C17 vernacular house retaining good C19 external character in a prominent road-side location within the town.
Group Description
Brynmor and Brynmor Cottage, Bangor Road, Penmaenmawr
L-shaped storeyed house, the primary range facing E. Of rendered rubble with gable parapets and plain end chimneys; C19 graded slate roof with unusually large-grade slates towards the eaves (queens). Near-centre entrance with mid-C19 6-panel door (upper 4 panels glazed) and 4-pane rectangular skylight; later C19 open-work timber porch in front. To the L a large late C19, recessed 4-pane sash window. To the R a mid C19 16-pane recessed sash; three similar 12-pane windows to the first floor. To the rear, an 8-pane sliding sash to the first floor. Two 12-pane first floor windows as before to the S (road-facing) gable, with a plain late C19 storeyed wing. Rubble construction (whitened to the road side) and slate roof with two plain rendered stacks; plain (renewed) bargeboards and deep verges. Road-facing facade with modern glazed door to the R and C19 tripartite sash window immediately to L of 4, 8 and 4-panes; further, 2-part sash window to the L, of 8 and 8 panes.
Adjoining the rear of the main house to the N, Brynmor Cottage, a further C19 storeyed range. Of rendered rubble with slate roof and end chimney to the W gable. 12-pane first-floor sliding sash to E gable; modern openings to N. Slated lean-to to W gable; further lean-tos to the rear of the main block of Brynmor, and to the rear of the later wing.
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