Introduction
Cors-y-Gedol is a late-16th-century country house with a park and garden dating from at least the 18th century. Features include a kitchen garden, which may be contemporary with the house, an intact mid-18th-century lime avenue, woodland and formal plantations with intersecting paths.
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- History
Period
18th Century
- Features & Designations
Designations
CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
- Reference: PGW(Gd)27(GWY)
- Grade: II
National Park
- Reference: Snowdonia
CADW Register of Listed Buildings in Wales
- Reference: Farmhouse, barns, stables and outbuildings, and 4 pairs of gate piers, near house and upper lodge
- Grade: II
CADW Register of Listed Buildings in Wales
- Reference: Gatehouse
- Grade: II*
Features
- House (featured building)
- Description: The late-16th-century house was remodelled at the end of the century, extended in the 17th and 18th centuries and finally doubled in size in the 19th century.
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- Kitchen Garden
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- Avenue
- Description: Lime avenue.
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- Plantation
- Description: Formal plantations with intersecting paths.
- Key Information
Type
Country Estate
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Detached House
Period
18th Century
Survival
Extant
Open to the public
Yes
Civil Parish
Dyffryn Ardudwy
- References
References
- Cadw and ICOMOS UK, 'Cors-y-Gedol' in {Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Conwy, Gwynedd & The Isle of Anglesey} (Cardiff: Cadw, 1998), pp. 180-5
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 'Cors-y-Gedol, Park, Grounds and Gardens',