Plas Gwyn including Plas Bychan is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 1963. House.

Plas Gwyn including Plas Bychan

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
7 June 1963
Type
House
Address
Plas Gwyn including Plas Bychan, Minera
OS grid reference
SJ 271 517
Coordinates
53.05839, -3.0891
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Plas Gwyn, which includes Plas Bychan, is a house from the mid-18th century that has been altered over time. The exterior is roughcast with stucco dressings, featuring a slate roof with close eaves and roughcast external end stacks. The gables have stone coping on moulded kneelers. The house is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range, accented by rusticated quoins. The earlier 20th-century metal windows are set in the original openings and consist of triple casements with small-paned top-lights. The openings are cambered-headed, adorned with painted stone rusticated voussoirs and triple keystones. The central door is framed by a painted stone shouldered architrave, frieze, and pediment, although the door itself is from the 20th century. A doorstep is inscribed with a height of 864 feet (263 meters) above sea level.

On the eaves, there are three pairs of small timber dormers with carved wood crestings, all from the 20th century. To the right of the main house, there is a single-storey addition that features three large square small-paned windows and a door situated between the first and second windows, along with a roughcast right end stack. To the left, a rubble stone garden wall includes a blank window and two doors. The rear of the house is windowless on the right side, while a rear wing on the left has a roughcast end stack, a coped gable, and a one-window range facing north. This wing has a French window on the ground floor, a triple casement above, and similar eaves dormers as those on the front. Beyond this, the lower wing has been converted into a separate dwelling, Plas Bychan, which features small-paned casement windows, similar dormers, and a hipped-roofed porch.

Inside, it is said that there is an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and panelled doors.

Local climate

Plas Gwyn including Plas Bychan receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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