Penybryn House, Bangor, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2304 / 53°13'49"N

Longitude: -4.1128 / 4°6'46"W

OS Eastings: 259068

OS Northings: 372460

OS Grid: SH590724

Mapcode National: GBR 5Q.0HDM

Mapcode Global: WH547.S2Q9

Plus Code: 9C5Q6VJP+5V

Entry Name: Penybryn House

Listing Date: 27 May 1949

Last Amended: 2 August 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4098

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004098

Location: 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

County: Gwynedd

Community: Bangor

Locality: Penybryn

Built-Up Area: Bangor

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: House

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History

Built 1779, almost certainly by Benjamin Wyatt. At one time the home of the Penrhyn estate manager. Some alterations in 1962 and sold off in 1978.

Exterior

Georgian symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay coursed rubble front with plinth and eaves band. Slate roof and brick chimney stacks. Central bay has pedimented gable with circular 8-pane window. 12-pane sash windows below with voussoir lintels, those to the ground floor have lead cills and are set into tall arched recesses. Slate coping to porch with arched entry, voussoirs and impost band; recessed entrance with double 3-panel doors and 5-pane fanlight. Rubble left gable end with 6-pane sashes and ground floor bay window at back. Single storey 2-window range extends to left with scribed cement render and sash windows, that to right is small pane tripartite. Garage attached at right angles at extreme left end. Rubble right gable end with small pane sashes; upper sash glazing bars removed on ground floor.

Late Georgian iron railings dating from the construction of the Holyhead road (ca 1817) continue along the terrace wall from The Old Farmhouse; similar gate across the drive at right end.

Interior

The interior is partially modernised but retains panelled shutters and 6-panel doors; arched recess to the Drawing Room at left of the broad entrance hall.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with The Old Farmhouse, Penybryn Bridge, the old road cutting and the Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel.

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Other nearby listed buildings

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 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 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 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 Tan-y-Coed
Elevated above the road with broad views across the Menai Straits; at the W end of the old Holyhead road cutting.
II Pont Penrhyn (partly in Bangor community)
Spanning the Afon Cegin just south of the present main approach to the docks at Porth Penrhyn, the road carried by the bridge leads to the Port Lodge entrance to Penrhyn Castle.

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Penybryn House

A Grade II Listed Building in Bangor, Gwynedd