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II  

Designated  

08/09/1998  

30/09/1999  

Former Farm Office at Glynllifon College Farm  

 

Gwynedd  

Llandwrog  

 

Glynllifon  

245869  

355562  

 

Situated end on to the farm track at the entrance into the upper of the two inter-linked farmyards. Glynllifon College Farm is approximately 200m uphill from the house and reached via a track beside the kitchen gardens.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

There is a date of 1852 on a porch in the lower farmyard which gives a likely date for much of the complex although there was presumably a pre-existing estate farm and the style of the arched entrance to the lower farmyard is diagnostic of the work of the 2nd Lord Newborough suggesting that part of the farm is likely to date from before 1832. The use of horizontally sliding sash windows suggests that this building is one of the earlier ranges within the farm. Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.  

Single-storey gable-ended rubble building with slate roof and rendered chimney stack on south-west end. The eaves are wide in the manner characteristic of the mid C19 estate buildings as are the horizontally sliding sash windows surviving on the north-west side. Offset on the south-west gable end is a gabled porch with side entrance and narrow window to front. North-east gable end is altered.  

Not accessible at time of inspection.  

Included for group value with other farm ranges at this good example of an early to mid C19 former estate farm.