Gloddaeth Hall

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Gloddaeth Hall

Gloddaeth Hall originated as a large country house in Llandudno, Caernarfonshire. It is designated by Cadw as a Grade-I listed building.[1] It stands on land which had been owned by the Mostyn family since the 15th century. The core of the building is a sixteenth-century hall and two-storey solar block, built of stone rubble with freestone dressings.[2] There are gabled stone slate roofs.[2] The hall is open to the hammer beam roof.[2] The lower room of the solar has sixteenth-century panelling, the upper seventeenth-century panelling.[2] A wing to the east was added around 1700.[1]

In the 19th century, further additions were made to the building by William E. Nesfield,[1] and by John Douglas, who designed a new west wing for Augusta, Lady Mostyn in 1889.[3] The hall now forms part of St David's College.[1]

A seventeenth-century dovecote remains.[2] Some elements of the formal gardens to the south-east may also be seventeenth century.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gloddaeth Hall, Cadw, http://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=3411, retrieved 19 December 2016 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Coflein". http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/26514/details/GLODDAETH+HALL,+LLANDUDNO/. Retrieved 2016-04-22. 
  3. Hubbard, Edward (1991). The Work of John Douglas. London: The Victorian Society. p. 258. ISBN 0-901657-16-6. 

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