Plas Newydd Tea Rooms and Shop, Llangollen
We started our visit to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plas_Newydd,_Llangollen" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Plas Newydd, Llangollen</a> by having lunch at the Plas Newydd Tea Rooms and Shop.


Plas Newydd, &quot;new hall&quot; or &quot;new mansion&quot;) is a historic house in the town of Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, and was the home of the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, for nearly 50 years. Today, it is run as a museum by Denbighshire County Council.

Plas Newydd is notable as the home where two Irish ladies, Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby (the Ladies of Llangollen) eloped and set up house together in the late 18th century, scandalising contemporary British society. Plas Newydd was originally a five-roomed stone cottage, but over the years it was enlarged to include many Gothic features. Although originally ostracised by their families, the ladies and their unconventional lifestyle gradually became accepted, and their home was visited by many famous people including Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Caroline Lamb and Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood.

The ladies also expanded and improved the gardens, adding many Gothic features such as a &quot;ruined&quot; archway, rustic bridges over rushing torrents and a temple that included a font removed from the ruined Valle Crucis Abbey. Ornate greenhouses grew exotic fruit, and poetic notices were attached to trees.

After their deaths in 1829 and 1831, the property passed through various hands and saw a number of changes. General John Yorke added the black and white features on the exterior and filled the interior with oddities from around the world. In 1932 the house was acquired by Llangollen Urban District Council and it is now a museum.


Grade II Listed Building

<a href="https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300001132-former-coach-house-in-the-grounds-of-plas-newydd-llangollen" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Former Coach House in the grounds of Plas Newydd</a>

History
Built in 1778 by Edward Edwards of Pengwern the owner of Pen y Maes cottage which the Ladies of Llangollen renamed Plas Newydd in 1780. Later given similar 'black and white' treatment.

Exterior
Single storey and attic L-plan building with slate roof; cobbled yard to left with screen wall. The long arm of the 'L' has much applied timberwork to the outer walls in a less contrived manner to that of the house; quatrefoil banding. Deeply recessed pointed arch doorway with Gothic door to the asymmetrical gable end and to the lean-to at the right - this has a boarded and studed door with implied semicircular hoodmould. The cross range is taller and whitewashed rubble to the outer walls. The gable end facing NW has tall round arched headed loft doorway flanked by 2 smaller doorways; 2 circular openings below (now bricked up) and a fully infilled pointed arch doorway between. The return wall to the left facing NE has cross gable with lancet window. Within the courtyard the whitewashed rubble gable end to left has simple applied timberwork. Ornate bargeboards, pointed loft door and cross frame windows flanking ground floor doorway. Half glazed carriage/garage doors to right.
Rubble screen wall has acutely pointed arch over entry; red brick voussoirs and carved figurehead of Edward Edwards to apex over a datestone E E E 1778. Stone head stops near the base of the arch.

Reasons for Listing
Group value with Plas Newydd and other listed items in the grounds.
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