Plas Moel-y-Garnedd is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 August 1991. Country house.
Plas Moel-y-Garnedd
- WRENN ID
- twisted-shingle-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1991
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Plas Moel-y-Garnedd, Llanycil, Bala, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 907 353
- Coordinates
- 52.90431, -3.62644
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plas Moel-y-Garnedd is a small, two-storey country house. It dates to a period when the style was popular, and has undergone later alterations. The house is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof, notable for its distinctive laced valleys formed with small slates. Stone chimney stacks feature recessed panels arranged in a chequered pattern.
The original main facade faces southeast, arranged symmetrically in a U-shape with a three-bay central section and advanced, gabled bays to either side. The gabled bays have unusual hip roofs with broached corners and stone dentilled eaves. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, with three lights in the gabled bays and two lights in the centre. A four-centred arch doorway, formerly the main entrance, has plain glazed doors and an overlight, and all openings are labelled.
A later entrance front faces northeast, with three bays and a more recent, advanced, gabled bay to the right. Stone dentil eaves are present on the left, and a cross-gable chimney is to the left of the entrance. Windows are cross-windows with slate-stone lintels; those on the first floor have small-pane glazing and a central two-light window. A modern hipped roof porch shelters the half-glazed entrance door. The advanced bay to the right has similar dentil eaves, but in timber rather than stone, and features transmullioned windows, with three lights to the front and cross-windows to the return side. A roughcast, twin-gabled rear elevation (southwest) includes two windows with arched heads. Rubble outbuildings are present, as is a long, lean-to addition on the northwest side.
The hall was created when the main entrance was moved from the southeast to the northeast front. It includes a fireplace dated 1883 and a balustraded staircase with a swept-up handrail and bulbous newels, including pendants. The hall and dining room feature reused panelling from Eaton Hall, Cheshire (designed 1870-2 by Alfred Waterhouse), likely following that building's demolition in 1961. The hall panelling is of mixed heights, while the dining room panelling is uniform with a cornice at three-quarter height over shaped panels. Other Eaton Hall details include panelled doors marked with a ‘W’ monogram, featuring linenfold ornament to the base and silver plate handles, positioned low due to shortening of the doors to suit a smaller scale. The dining room also retains a marble chimneypiece with a pointed arch fireplace and Gothic tiling. The present drawing room was originally the entrance hall, with a doorway into a room at the northeast corner now blocked. On the first floor, the staircase balustrade extends along the landing, which has an arched opening.
Local climate
Plas Moel-y-Garnedd sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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