Y Glyn is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. Manse house.
Y Glyn
- WRENN ID
- third-window-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Manse house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Late Georgian; the main elevation is to the SE. Three-storey, 3+1 window roughcast front with plinth; slate roof with wide panelled and bracket eaves and rendered end chimney stacks. The central bay is splayed out with blind openings to the sides; the 1-window bay set back to left has narrow eaves and roof hipped at end. Small pane sash windows (some horned), 6-pane to second floor, 9-pane to first floor and 12-pane to ground floor; fixed glazed window over modern porch with classical portico. Six-panel door and fanlight. Modern kitchen extension to verandah to left with French windows. Sash windows at rear, tripartite outer windows to first and ground floors. Later pedimented projection to ground floor has three windows, the central of which is a 12-pane sash. The lawn to rear is bounded by cast iron railings with the land dropping away steeply beyond.
The interior retains considerable contemporary detail. The entrance opens onto an octagonal hall with one Baroque and two broken pedimented doorcases and panelled dado. The dog leg staircase to the right has panelled newels and barley twist balusters. The Drawing Room has a Tuscan Doric screen with panelled piers to ends and Adamesque detailing below built in display cabinets; ceiling rose, gilded cornice bands and Rococo chimneypiece with tapered pilasters and fully modelled festoons. The Dining Room retains ¾ height panelling and Jacobean overmantel (? formerly a bedhead) with mantlepiece (? formerly bed board) inscribed with various signatures; panelled and carved fireplace with fleur de lys fireback. Fine Victorian closet at rear with blue and white porcelain by Shanks of Barrhead.
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