Plas Yolyn
PLAS YOLYN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1055916
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Plas Yolyn
- Statutory Address:
- PLAS YOLYN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1055916
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Plas Yolyn
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLAS YOLYN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PLAS YOLYN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellesmere Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 34774 37813
Details
ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. - SJ 33 NW 3/76 Plas Yolyn(formerly - listed as Plas Iolyn) 27.5.53 GV II* Small country house. Mid-C18 possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building, extensively remodelled for William Challoner between c.1780 and 1800. Red brick with sandstone ashlar facing to front; hipped slate roofs. 2 and 3 storeys with stone modillion eaves cornice and parapet. 1:3:1 bays, centre section forming slightly projecting break with extra storey; glazing bar sashes, tripartite to outer bays. Central entrance; small open-pedimented Roman Doric portico with 2 pairs of fluted columns and guttae to pediment. Contemporary half-glazed door with rectangular overlight. Red brick ridge stacks to either side of centre section with external end stacks to left and right. Left and right returns have plain floor bands (dentilled to front part on left) and toothed eaves cornice. Rear has twin gables with central valley and integral end stacks; coped verges on carved stone kneelers. Scattered C19 segmental-headed casements. Interior. Not inspected but likely to be of interest. B.O.E. p. 123; Peter Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Vol. II (1980), p. 109.
Listing NGR: SJ3477437813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260776
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 109
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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