4844

 

II*  

Designated  

30/11/1966  

30/12/2004  

Gatehouse at Glyn Cywarch  

 

Gwynedd  

Talsarnau  

 

Glyn Cywarch  

260902  

334259  

NE  

In private grounds set well back from the NE side of the B4573, to S of Glan-y-wern and SE of Eisingrug; the gatehouse is directly SE of the house at Glyn Cywarch.  

Domestic  

 

Early C17 gatehouse, contemporary with the main range at Glyn Cywarch for which it was built. Originally with low flanking wings, the rooflines of which were raised during the estate improvements of the 1870s.  

C17 gatehouse. 3 storeys with attics to central section, with lower flanking stable and cartshed wings. Built of mortared rubble masonry with large stones as quoins and lintels and sandstone dressings. Slate cruciform roof with stone copings and tall square stacks with dripstone and cappings to L (SW) and R (NE) gables; wings have corbelled eaves. The principal elevation faces the yard to SE, the rear elevation faces the house to NW. The main entrance is offset to L (SW) with riven stone voussoir-arched head with plain hoodmould; mullioned window of 2 lights to R. The upper storeys have mullioned windows of 3-lights with hoodmoulds, the height diminishing at each storey. To L (SW) is the stable wing, the central doorway has a 4-centred arched head and is flanked by mullioned windows of 3-lights; there is a further window of 2-lights at a higher level to far R. Above the entrance is a mullioned window of 4-lights set in a gabled dormer that breaks the eaves line. There is a plain label over and advanced copings that form a pediment surmounted by a raised ball finial and houses a datestone in the tympanum that bears the initials and date: J.R.O.G. M.P. / 1871. The cartshed (garage) wing has two wide cartshed bays with mullioned 1st floor windows of 3-lights above. To centre there is a similar gabled dormer to the stable range, housing a mullioned window of 3-lights and with a datestone that bears the date: 1877.  

Modernised late C19 and early C20.  

Listed as a C17 gatehouse, an integral part of the architecturally ambitious complex of buildings at Glyn Cywarch.