Plas Iolyn is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 December 1995. Country house.

Plas Iolyn

WRENN ID
crooked-paling-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 December 1995
Type
Country house
Address
Plas Iolyn, Llechwydd, Henryd
OS grid reference
SH 771 754
Coordinates
53.26189, -3.8427
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Plas Iolyn is a late Regency villa-scale country house built around 1830, with alterations and extensions made in the late 19th century. The building is two stories high and roughly C-shaped, surrounding a rear service court. It features rendered rubble construction with shallow-pitched, hipped roofs, deep bracketed and compartmented eaves, and plain rendered chimneys. The exterior includes rusticated quoins, moulded stucco surrounds to the main windows, and a cill-course at the first floor.

The symmetrical main facade faces west and has a plain, part-glazed panelled door flanked by plain-glazed windows, all set within a single-storey, eight-bay late Victorian enclosed veranda. This veranda features plain sash windows and dividing Tuscan pilasters. On the first floor, there are three 12-pane primary sash windows with external wooden shutters. The south return has a storied, canted late 19th-century bay window with sash windows above and below. The rear of the house is asymmetrical, with tall 8-pane sashes and additional 12-pane windows. There is a large 24-pane casement window on the first floor of the north return of the rear range. A small service court has late 19th-century infill on the former open north side, with boarded doors. The northwest return has further windows, but the first-floor window on the right is blind, showing traces of fictive, painted glazing.

Inside, the house features plain Regency interiors, including a simple swept-rail stair with stick balusters. Overall, Plas Iolyn is a small Regency country house that retains much of its external character despite the later 19th-century alterations.

Local climate

Plas Iolyn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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