Glyn Cywarch

Glyn Cywarch, the Gatehouse, the Walled Garden and the Estate Yard Ranges are Listed as prominent early seventeenth-century gentry places. Its architectural ambition and social status are marked by a fusion of regional traditions and Renaissance ideas, retaining original interior detail of exceptional quality.

The Wynn family originally controlled the Glyn Estate, and at the time of the construction of Glyn Cywarch, it was owned by William and Katherine Wynn, whose names are engraved above the main threshold. It is suspected that William Wynn was not the first person to inhabit this estate as a Robert Wynn, who died in 1592, is mentioned in records as ‘of Glyn’. It is known that William’s granddaughter Margaret inherited the estate after marrying Sir Robert Owen of Clenneny and Brogyntyn in the 18th century. In the mid 1780’s, a grandson of this union, Robert Godolphin Owen, inherited the estate. However, for most of the 18th century, the Wynn family were ensconced at Brogyntyn Estate whilst their agent used the house. Robert and his brothers died without issue, leaving their sister Margaret to inherit the combined estates; she married Owen Ormsby of Dublin, whose mother was also a descendant of the Wynn family. The property advanced to her daughter Mary Jane Ormsby, who married William Gore; their children were addressed under the surname Ormsby-Gore after that, and the eldest male was created Baron Harlech in 1876.

In 2016, the hall was extensively restored using traditional building methods and materials to preserve the character of the building, alongside particular contemporary renovations and changes such as improving insulation and the addition of a water source heat pump to provide hot water and heating.