Tan-y-Coed, Bangor, Gwynedd

Entry Name: Tan-y-Coed

Listing Date: 27 May 1949

Last Amended: 2 August 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4097

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004097

Location: Elevated above the road with broad views across the Menai Straits; at the W end of the old Holyhead road cutting.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Bangor

Locality: Penebryn

Built-Up Area: Bangor

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Dated 1810, (opened 25 October). Built by Benjamin Wyatt, architect to Penrhyn Estate, as the Caernarfonshire and Anglesey dispensary; commissioned by Dean Warren. Said to have been converted into a private house in 1847; the right hand cross range had been added by 1854 and the 1987 OS map shows the building much as it is today. In 1960’s it was the office of Howell and Doherty, architects.

Exterior

2-storey, 3-window coursed rubble symmetrical front with band course over ground floor. Slate roof and rendered end chimney stacks. Small pane sash windows, 16-pane except for that over the porch with parapet and cornice; segmental entrance with 6-panel door; modern inner door. In the porch are 2 slate tablets describing the history of the building, one states that it was sited here to be clearly visible from Anglesey.

Advanced at either end are single storey screen walls with boarded doors in round arched headed entrances giving access to the cross ranges. French windows on the left gable end; right end it scribed rendered. Slate paves courtyard to rear with cross ranges stepped out from gable ends and extending back to Castle Bank. That to the left retains small pane sash windows, including one horizontally sliding; the large pebbledash chimney stack may represent the former extend of this range before enlargement. The right hand range retains the Victorian larder with slate shelving.

Dressed stone gate piers to the front; slate steps and plain iron railings.

Captain Johnson’s 1854 map.

Interior

The interior retains 6-panel doors, segmental hallway arch and tightly winding staircase with turned newel. The 1st floor was originally undivided and used as the hospital ward.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with the old road cutting.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel
At the side of the lane leading up to the Golf Club; retained as a feature in the Penybryn gardens.
II Revetment Walls and Railings
Short sunken section of the former London to Holyhead Turnpike road cut through the hillside. Reached off the Llandegai Road opposite the road to Port Penrhyn and off the High Street beside Tan y Coe
II The Old Farmhouse
Situated on the terrace above the sunken section of the old Holyhead road cutting and reached by the road by the Golf Club. Penybryn House detached to left.
II Penybryn House
Situated on a terrace above the sunken section of the old Holyhead road and reached by the lane up to the Golf Club; approached from the right past The Old Farmhouse
II Tan-y Bryn Lodge
Set into the hillside at the base of the drive to Tan-y-Bryn house; at a splayed angle to the main road.
II Penrhyn Bridge, including parapet walls on the approach road to Penrhyn Castle Port
Spanning the Afon Cegin at the inner end of Penrhyn Docks. Reached off the Llandegai road and carrying the rear drive into the Penrhyn Estate.
II Penybryn Bridge, including railings & lamp standards
Carried the lane up to the Golf Club, over the sunken section of the old Holyhead road just below The Old Farmhouse.
II Chick King (including 80 Ambrosre Street)
On the corner with Ambrose Street, facing the foreshore.

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Tan-y-Coed

A Grade II Listed Building in Bangor, Gwynedd

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