Ty Gwyn, Barmouth, dates back to 1460 and was built by Gruffydd Fychan of Corsygedol. It was during this period that the two royal houses of York and Lancaster were fighting each other in the long-running 'Wars of the Roses'. Although the majority of the gentry families of Gwynedd supported the house of York, Gruffydd Fychan was a keen supporter of the house of Lancaster and it is said that he built Ty Gwyn as a meeting place for his fellow Lancastrian supporters. Ty Gwyn stands right on the edge of the sea - it was described by the poet Tudur Penllyn as 'a house built in the waves' (Ty a'i hanner mewn tonnau) - and was therefore not only considered a safe landing place but was also conveniently placed if there was a need to escape quickly by sea. In 1468, it is said that Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, and one of the most active Lancastrian supporters, landed on the north Wales coast, probably near Barmouth, on his way to Denbigh. Ty Gwyn was restored during the early 1980s and is open to visitors. It now houses the collection of the 'Bronze Bell' wreck, a ship which foundered off the shore of Dyffryn Ardudwy, near Barmouth, early in the eighteenth century.