Plas Dinas, Grade II listed house in Bontnewydd, United Kingdom.
Plas Dinas is a Grade II listed stone house in Bontnewydd, in north Wales, now run as a hotel. The building has eleven bedrooms, each decorated individually, along with communal rooms that still hold original furniture and family portraits from its years as a private residence.
The house was built in the early 17th century and changed hands several times before the Armstrong-Jones family moved in around 1915. They lived there across several generations, and the property eventually became a hotel after the family's time there came to an end.
The Gunroom restaurant is built around an original fireplace and gives diners a sense of eating inside a room that has barely changed over the centuries. Family portraits and old furnishings line the walls, making the meal feel less like a restaurant visit and more like a private dinner in someone's home.
The house sits just outside Caernarfon, making it easy to reach by car from most parts of north Wales. From here, the coast and the hills of Snowdonia are both within a short drive, so it works well as a base for day trips in either direction.
A gritstone tablet dated 1653, set into the wall of the building, bears the coat of arms of Thomas and Jane Williams, the first recorded owners. It is one of the few physical traces of the house's earliest history still visible on the property today.
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