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  • Penarth Fawr is a stone-built hall house which was built c. 1450.
Aerial photograph of Penarth Fawr medieval hall house, near Chwilog, 1996
  • Cutaway drawing of Ty Mawr, Castell Caereinion, a former medieval hall house with aisled trusses, probably constructed during the fourteenth century.
Cutaway drawing of Ty Mawr, Castell Caereinion
  • Llys Euryn was a fortified manor house which was built in the mid 15th century for Robin, eldest son of Gruffydd Goch who led the old Welsh tribal division of Rhos. It was a large and very well appointed building for its time and was fortified because of the invasions of north Wales that occurred during the Wars of the Roses. A contemporary bardic poem described '3 fair stories' and the building had a slate roof pegged in place by oak nails. The external walls were three feet thick and the external windows were all narrow defensible slits. The hall was improved during its peaceful first hundred years but the family fortunes declined and it was sold to pay off debts. By 1763 it was probably derelict, robbed of any useful material until it became a mere shell. Source: http://www.castlewales.com/euryn.html
Llys Euryn, Rhos-on-Sea: view from south, 1954
  • Llys Euryn was a fortified manor house which was built in the mid 15th century for Robin, eldest son of Gruffydd Goch who led the old Welsh tribal division of Rhos. It was a large and very well appointed building for its time and was fortified because of the invasions of north Wales that occurred during the Wars of the Roses. A contemporary bardic poem described '3 fair stories' and the building had a slate roof pegged in place by oak nails. The external walls were three feet thick and the external windows were all narrow defensible slits. The hall was improved during its peaceful first hundred years but the family fortunes declined and it was sold to pay off debts. By 1763 it was probably derelict, robbed of any useful material until it became a mere shell. Source: http://www.castlewales.com/euryn.html
Llys Euryn, Rhos on Sea: east wall, 1954
  • Llys Euryn was a fortified manor house which was built in the mid 15th century for Robin, eldest son of Gruffydd Goch who led the old Welsh tribal division of Rhos. It was a large and very well appointed building for its time and was fortified because of the invasions of north Wales that occurred during the Wars of the Roses. A contemporary bardic poem described '3 fair stories' and the building had a slate roof pegged in place by oak nails. The external walls were three feet thick and the external windows were all narrow defensible slits. The hall was improved during its peaceful first hundred years but the family fortunes declined and it was sold to pay off debts. By 1763 it was probably derelict, robbed of any useful material until it became a mere shell. Source: http://www.castlewales.com/euryn.html
Llys Euryn, Llandrillo-yn-Rhos: rebuilt diagonal chimney and fireplace, 1954
  • Penarth Fawr is a stone-built hall house which was built c. 1450.
Aerial photograph of Penarth Fawr medieval hall house, near Chwilog, 1996