Ael y Bryn, Caernarfon, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1417 / 53°8'30"N

Longitude: -4.2711 / 4°16'16"W

OS Eastings: 248186

OS Northings: 362917

OS Grid: SH481629

Mapcode National: GBR 5J.60XZ

Mapcode Global: WH43F.C9CB

Plus Code: 9C5Q4PRH+MG

Entry Name: Ael y Bryn

Listing Date: 31 March 1983

Last Amended: 3 May 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3939

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003939

Location: Set back from and above the street at the junction with Twthill East.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Locality: Twthill

Built-Up Area: Caernarfon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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History

An early C19 villa shown on the 1834 town map.

Exterior

A Regency villa of 2 storeys and 3 bays, roughly square in plan. Pebble-dashed walls and a hipped roof of graded slates on wide boarded eaves, with 2 ridge stacks. The central fielded-panel door has a 2-pane margin-lit overlight. Windows are 12-pane hornless sashes. A veranda with hipped-roof across the lower storey returns on both sides. It has wooden posts with pierced roundels in the spandrels of arched brackets. On the L side is a castellated wall with a Tudor-arched doorway and boarded door. In the R side wall are 2 blind upper-storey windows.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a well-detailed and well-preserved early C19 villa that represents the C19 suburban expansion of the town consequent upon Caernarfon's growth in importance as a port.

External Links

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II Frondeg
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II Celtic Royal Hotel
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II Marbryn
Set back from the road and immediately N of the Celtic Royal Hotel.
II Caernarfon Youth and Community Centre
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II* Capel Pendref
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II Schoolmaster's house at former British School
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II* Caernarfon Royal Town Council Offices, including 10 Bangor Street
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Ael y Bryn

A Grade II Listed Building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd