Plas Maenan

An Edwardian country house set three hundred feet above the River Conwy, with Snowdonia on the horizon.

Stockbridge holds Plas Maenan within The Gilchrist Collection, on a rock shelf above the Conwy Valley in North Wales.

Provenance

Built at the turn of the twentieth century, the house was bought in 1915 by the Aluminium Corporation for its managing director and renamed Maenan Manor. During the Second World War it housed evacuee children, of whom several books were written.

Beneath the house runs an intact medieval tunnel complex, within which a blast-proof strong room was used in wartime to store treasures of the British National Museum. Major restorations followed in 2005 and again in 2018.

The Grounds

The house stands three hundred feet above the valley, with the River Conwy below, the Carneddau mountains beyond and Snowdonia as its horizon. A sun terrace and ceremony lawns command the view. The tunnel complex holds the largest population of lesser horseshoe bats in the United Kingdom.

Within

The Calon and Cariad Suites, and a Ballroom beneath wooden panelling, exposed beams and an oak parquet floor, form the principal interiors. The house holds nine bedrooms.

Stockbridge holds Plas Maenan for the long term, a house of documented wartime significance maintained and stewarded rather than realised.