| Plas Mynach | |
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Interior showing the staircase gallery on the left and the hall fireplace on the right
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| Location: | Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales |
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| Built: | 1883 |
| Built for: | W. H. Jones |
| Architect: | John Douglas |
| Architectural style(s): | Welsh vernacular |
| Listed Building – Grade II* | |
| Designated: | 25 February 1992 |
| Reference #: | 5244 |
Plas Mynach is a large country house in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales. It is a Grade II* listed building standing in a prominent position overlooking the sea.[1]
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The house was designed in 1883 by the Chester architect John Douglas for W. H. Jones.[2]
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]
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".[4] 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]