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The Old Rectory also known as Pennant

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0373 / 53°2'14"N

Longitude: -3.5134 / 3°30'48"W

OS Eastings: 298621

OS Northings: 349958

OS Grid: SH986499

Mapcode National: GBR 6H.DR1N

Mapcode Global: WH66G.0X7F

Plus Code: 9C5R2FPP+WM

Entry Name: The Old Rectory also known as Pennant

Listing Date: 1 April 1998

Last Amended: 1 April 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 19577

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300019577

Location: The building stands back from the road from Llanfihangel running N to Pentre-llyn-cymmer, approximately 800m from the village centre, and on the W slope of the valley of the Afon Alwen.

County: Conwy

Community: Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr

Community: Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr

Locality: Llanfihangel

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Clergy house

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History

Built c1810-20 possibly for Robert Pritchard, rector from 1800. It was occupied by the curate Robert Jones, a long standing friend of the poet William Wordsworth, who visited him at stayed at Llanfihangel in 1824, and enjoyed walking together in the 'Vale of Contemplation'. Wordsworth dedicated his 'Descriptive Sketches' (1793) to Jones.

Exterior

Built of rubble stone with a hipped slate roof to the front and central rubble chimney stack. Two storeys, the main block is tall, 2 windows to the E elevation of a long range running W, and containing the main reception rooms. The rear wing of 1 bay, extended in the later C19 to 3 bays, with a lean-to against the earlier bay containing the entrance; a four-panelled door flanking paned timber windows. The main block has 12-paned sashes with slender glazing bars and partly recessed boxes. A flat roofed extension has been added to the N side.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good example of a Regency style building, built as a parsonage house in the early C19, and for its associations with William Wordsworth..

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II* Church of St Michael
    The church stands in a modified oval churchyard, approximately 250m W of Llanfihangel Bridge on the road up the Afon Alwen valley.
  • II Tan-llan (The White Cottage)
    The house lies directly opposite the church, on the S side of the road running W and N from the centre of the village to Pentre-llyn-cymmer.
  • II The Crown Inn and stable building
    The inn is dramatically set under a crag on the bank of the Afon Alwen close to the NE side of Llanfihangel Bridge, where the road takes a sharp corner on the route to Ruthin.
  • II Pont Llanfihangel
    The bridge carries the B5105 Cerrigydrudion to Ruthin Road over the Afon Alwen at the centre of Llanfihangel.

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