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Tan-y-marian

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanllechid, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2095 / 53°12'34"N

Longitude: -4.074 / 4°4'26"W

OS Eastings: 261587

OS Northings: 370052

OS Grid: SH615700

Mapcode National: GBR 5S.1SYW

Mapcode Global: WH548.DL7D

Plus Code: 9C5Q6W5G+Q9

Entry Name: Tan-y-marian

Listing Date: 9 March 2000

Last Amended: 9 March 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22926

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300022926

Location: Located in elevated position on edge of woodland overlooking pasture fields at end of track running off Llanllechid to Tal-y-bont road; rubblestone wall with stone-on-edge coping separates garden from

County: Gwynedd

Town: Bangor

Community: Llanllechid

Community: Llanllechid

Locality: Tal-y-bont

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Built c1860 on land provided by the Penrhyn Estate as the manse for Edward Stephens, minister of the Indendepent chapels at Rachub (Capel Carmel) and Tal-y-bont (Capel Bethlehem). Stephens (1822-1885) was a noted composer of hymn tunes and well-known preacher. The level area of ground immediately to the west of the rubblestone wall in front of the house is the site of a former tennis court.

Exterior

2-storey rectangular plan, symmetrical 3-bay building of roughcast rubblestone, slate-hung to left return; hipped slate roof with short ridge. 12-paned sashes to front, those on ground floor segmental-headed, all with slate cills; central entrance through 6-panel door (divided in 2) under flat-roofed timber porch with latticed work to sides; prominent rectangular stacks in roof slope to left and right. 2-storey lean-tos set back to each end wall, that on right larger and with 16-paned horizontal sliding sash window to front on each floor.

Interior

Large central hall has original staircase with stick balusters, open string, turned and radiating bottom newel and moulded handrail; 6-panel doors and panelled window shutters

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a substantial and essentially unaltered mid-C19 manse built in the late Georgian idiom.

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  • II Pen-y-bryn
    Located at end of short farm track running off the south-west side of the minor road between Llanllechid and Tal-y-bont; low rubblestone wall with stone-on-edge coping in front of main farmhouse.
  • II Tyddyn-isaf & Tyddyn-isaf bach
    Located on south side of track running westwards from the minor road between Llanllechid and Tal-y-bont; low rubblestone wall with stone-on-edge coping in front of both farm and cottage.
  • II Plas-uchaf
    Situated with its farmbuildings to south of track running westwards off the minor road between Llanllechid and Abergwyngregyn; the dwellings have a garden to the front and are separated from the field
  • II Cart Shelter and Pigsties at Plas-uchaf
    Situated immediately to the north of the farm cottages at Plas-uchaf; rubblestone wall defines small yard to front (west) of cart shelter and pigsties front onto another yard to east.
  • II L-shaped Cowhouse Range at Plas-uchaf
    Located immediately to the east of the cart shelter and pigsties at Plas-uchaf looking onto yard defined by these buildings and rubblestone wall to track.
  • II Small Cowhouse Range at Plas-uchaf
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  • II Plas Hwfa
    Situated in undulating pasture field landscape, the farmhouse is reached from the track running southwards off the road between Eglwys St Cross and Tan-y-lon to Tal-y-bont-uchaf, which now continues v
  • II U-shaped Range of Farmbuildings at Tal-y-bont-uchaf
    Situated on the north-east side of the cobbled farmyard at Tal-y-bont uchaf.

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