Plas Mynach

Plas Mynach

Interior showing the staircase gallery on the left and the hall fireplace on the right
Location Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales
Coordinates 52°43′45″N 4°03′46″W / 52.7292°N 4.0627°W / 52.7292; -4.0627Coordinates: 52°43′45″N 4°03′46″W / 52.7292°N 4.0627°W / 52.7292; -4.0627
Built 1883
Built for W. H. Jones
Architect John Douglas
Architectural style(s) Welsh vernacular
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated 25 February 1992
Reference no. 5244
Interior showing the staircase on the left and the hall on the right

Plas Mynach is a large country house in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales. It is designated by Cadw as a Grade II* listed building, and stands in a prominent position overlooking the sea.[1]

History

The house was designed in 1883 by the Chester architect John Douglas for W. H. Jones.[2]

Architecture

Plas Mynach is built in local stone with a slate roof.[1] Its most distinctive features are a low spreading tower with a stair turret and stepped gables.[3] Its plan consists of a main range with two storeys to the south, single-storey service ranges to the north, and a gatehouse range to the east of the three-storey tower.[1] Internally "the hall, staircase and landing provide a classic example of Douglas's domestic joinery".[3] The door knocker came from Nuremberg.[3]

External features

The lodge to the house, also designed by Douglas for Jones, is designated at Grade II.[4]

Critique

In 1884 the architect Raffles Davison stated that the house "very nearly realised to me the idea of a perfect country house" and inside was "one of the most charming halls I have seen".[5] In his biography of Douglas, Hubbard states it has "a strength and austere simplicity unusual in Douglas's work".[3] The description in the listing refers to it as "one of the more important country houses by John Douglas, in an apparently little-altered condition".[1]

See also

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Plas Mynach, Cadw, retrieved 11 September 2013
  2. ↑ Hubbard 1991, p. 252
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hubbard 1991, p. 109
  4. ↑ Plas Mynach Lodge, Cadw, retrieved 11 September 2013
  5. ↑ Quoted in Hubbard 1991, p. 33

Sources

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