Plas y Coed, Port Penrhyn

South façade of the Victorian gothic mansion

Date	24 March 2012
Location	Port Penrhyn, Bangor	SH 59408 72465; 53.23055°N, 4.10771°W
Information	Around 1790 a house was built just outside the grounds of Penrhyn Castle at Port Penrhyn for Benjamin Wyatt, agent to the Penrhyn estate. This neoclassical villa, known as Lime Grove, was designed by Benjamin’s brother Samuel and survived until 1864, when, having been deemed to be unfashionable, it was demolished. In 1878 a larger mansion house, Plas y Coed, was built on the site of Lime Grove as the residence of the estate’s agent (at the time Captain Pennant Lloyd), a role it was to continue to play until the Second World War. It thereafter became a care home for the elderly, which was run by Gwynedd Council up until its closure in 2005. London-based Gloria Healthcare submitted plans in 2008 to construct a 106-bedroom residential facility for the elderly next to the Grade II listed building and to convert the latter into a day-care centre. Planning permission was turned down on the grounds of over provision of care and the detrimental effect of the design on the setting. The 15-acre site was purchased by local developer Watkin Jones in 2010. In November 2011 Watkin Jones made a planning application to convert Plas y Coed into 12 flats (including 4 ‘affordable’ units) and to build 17 detached houses in the former grazing land adjacent to the mansion. Plans for 29 homes at former Bangor care home Plas y Coed (Bangor and Anglesey Mail, 21 Dec 2011)

Finial and jackdaw

The house was built in 1878 to replace the neoclassical villa Lime Grove

Balcony detail

Hopper head – 1878

Walled garden

Stable block

Bay window decorative corbel

Bay window corbelling, east elevation

Dormer

East-elevation bay window

East elevation

The house has been vacant since it closed as a care home for the elderly in 2005

Bay window, south elevation

South elevation

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