Description
Gwern Hall is dated 1834, part of the fabric appears to be of earlier date, raising the possibility that there was an earlier house on the site to which this datestone might refer. It is Gothic/Jacobean Revival style, reflecting the sub-medieval use of crow-stepped gables in Denbighshire. Coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof, 2 storeys and an attic. The house consists of three linked ranges. That to the right is near-symmetrical and consists of paired bays with steep crowstepped gables each with a small centrally placed quatrefoil attic window and 3-light arched mullioned windows to the upper floor. The left hand bay has a flat-headed transomed ground-floor window and that to the right has a central stepped buttress with transomed windows on each side. These bays flank a central projecting gabled porch with a central arched entrance with moulded jambs, behind which is a taller gabled dormer with a window with a cusped head.
Reference: Cadw listed buildings database.
RCAHMW, 2010.
Reference: Cadw listed buildings database.
RCAHMW, 2010.
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ReplyDeleteFascinating house, sold after renovation this year for £750K. We were told the first Welsh Bible was published by the residents who were Spottiswoodes of the publisher Eyre and Spottiswoode. We walk along the public footpath which runs along the front of the property.
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