Bodwrdda is a major sixteenth-century, two-storey gentry house with seventeenth-century brick wings. There is a reference to a wall painting of 'the nine worthies' in the house (Dafydd Evans, NLW. (NLW J XVIII 181).)

Jamie Davies, commenting as part of the crowd-sourced project, Crwydro, in 2014, notes that tree-ring dating for the hall indicates a felling date of 1536-1574, while the extension to the hall has a felling date of Spring 1575:

'A large U plan storeyed house of several phases. The principal stone-built phase has a three-unit plan with a large hall with lateral chimney between inner and outer bays. In a second phase the hall range was extended, and brick-built wings were added to the main range in a third phase. This is the earliest brick-built range in north-west Wales and apparently dated by inscription 1621. Tree-ring dating established that the principal range belongs to the early decades after the Act of Union.'

Source: RCAHMW Wallpaintings collection. 2004.09.08/RCAHMW/SLE; Crwydro, 05/08/2014; Dating Old Welsh Houses, June 2012

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