Welsh Manor House with train platform on sale, perfect for heritage lovers and history buffs

Heritage and history lovers, looking for a unique home, will be charmed with Plas y Dduallt, n impressive Grade II listed Welsh Manor House dating back to the C16th. Situated on the south-facing slopes of Moelwyn Bach, the property is listed by Walter Lloyd Jones for £795,000 and it has one particular feature that makes it especially entertaining.

The house even has its very own train platform.

According to the listing, the manor has a private platform onto the Ffestiniog Railway and its strictly for the use of the owners and house visitors. The Campbell’s Platform dates back to 1836 and it was built with the exact purpose of serving the manor.

Plas y Dduallt is of stone construction with a slate roof offering six bedrooms, four bathrooms and three reception rooms. Most of the rooms have exposed stone walls with access to the first floor by way of spiral stone steps.

And her appeal is even grater due to the exposed large oak beams, the impressive four-poster bedroom, the stone flagged floors,  a minstrels’ gallery in the kitchen, a cellar with arrow slits, a balcony, studded and linenfold solid oak internal doors and large inglenook fireplaces.

The porch comes complete with glazed oak double doors, stone lion’s head above, three oak doors leading into dining room, sitting room and cellar. A window to rear allows for an outlook onto the kitchen garden, exposed stone walls, exposed beams while the  Campbell’s Coat of Arms inset in cobbles surrounded by slate flagged flooring.

The house might be appealing to history buffs as it is said that Oliver Cromwell was a guest here during his campaign against the Royalists of North Wales.

The property sits on approximately 5 acres of land from which 3 acres on a 50-year lease from the National Trust. The freehold land around the buildings includes the cottage style garden, the kitchen garden, the front lawn and the walled vegetable garden.

The cottage style garden has a lawn with borders of shrubs and plants and a series of five cascading ponds fed by a mountain stream.

The kitchen garden is a sheltered seating area between the house and the old barn with herbaceous border and herbs. The extensive vegetable garden benefits from all day sunshine and produces crops of fruit and veg as well as many flowering plants.

The leasehold land includes about an acre of formal garden adjacent to the cottage style garden with lawn, trees, shrubs and a stream. There is a flat area at the top for football and basketball. The other main section of leasehold land is the hillside pasture and woodland between the house and the railway line which is currently grazed by sheep.