Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
02/03/1998
Name of Property
Nyffryn Bella
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Situated at the end of a track some 900m long, W off a minor road which runs N from the crossroads at Dinas.
History
Gentry house of the mid C17, later part of the Cefnamwlch estate. The Llaniestyn Tithe Map of 1840 shows a holding of 319 acres (129ha) owned by Charles Wynne Griffith Wynne Esq and occupied by Robert Parry. Much restored in 1990s.
Exterior
Gentry house, rubble stone with slate close-eaved roof and stone left end stack. Small pebbledashed right stack is renewed. Two storeys, roughly 4-window range heavily offset to right. There are 3 renewed 16-pane sashes each floor, 2-window range left of door, one-window range right. Slab lintels, C20 door. Very large area of chimney wall to left has tiny fire-window each floor. N end gable has been rebuilt in brick c1960 and roughcast. S end has added small lean-to. Rear is all pebbledashed with renewed windows, centre stair gable and added SW rear wing with stone end stack. Stair gable has 6-pane loft light and 12-pane main light. Small 4-pane window each floor left of stair gable, C20 lean-to porch to right, between gable and rear wing.
Interior
Said by the RCAHM to have mostly C19 to C20 interior apart from ceiling beams and joists, the main beams crossing with ornate mouldings and leaf-stops. Corbels from original roof remain.
Reason for designation
A smaller gentry house of the C17.
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