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
3939
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1983
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Ael y Bryn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Twthill
Easting
248186
Northing
362917
Street Side
E
Location
Set back from and above the street at the junction with Twthill East.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An early C19 villa shown on the 1834 town map.
Exterior
A Regency villa of 2 storeys and 3 bays, roughly square in plan. Pebble-dashed walls and a hipped roof of graded slates on wide boarded eaves, with 2 ridge stacks. The central fielded-panel door has a 2-pane margin-lit overlight. Windows are 12-pane hornless sashes. A veranda with hipped-roof across the lower storey returns on both sides. It has wooden posts with pierced roundels in the spandrels of arched brackets. On the L side is a castellated wall with a Tudor-arched doorway and boarded door. In the R side wall are 2 blind upper-storey windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed and well-preserved early C19 villa that represents the C19 suburban expansion of the town consequent upon Caernarfon's growth in importance as a port.
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