Interesting local buildings Ty Pandy - the original woollen or fulling mill c.1800 and modified in Victorian times; still has a mill race and mill pond fed by the river Pen-y-Bont 'By the Bridge' - c.16th century, river stone cottage; possibly the oldest building in the village Seion Methodist Chapel and Vestry - 1841 Former Seion Chapel - 1819 Llannerch y Felin - Elizabethan Snowdonia-type house Bodafon and Fronfa - houses adjacent to the former post office with old Georgian style porches since removed; stables/store below Llais Afon - large village terrace house (formerly two houses) with original sash windows and a former carpenter's workshop to the side; Coed Mawr Hall - probably mid-19th-century Rock House - large house above Coed Mawr Hall Tan yr Onnen cottage with dated gate stone Glyn Isa - 17th-century country house Gilfach - with lovely gardens Y Swan - old village inn, now a house The old cobbler's shop facing the road (near Ty Gwyn) Pandy - the manor (historically, Pandy was Lord of the Manorial ) Bulkeley Mill - old mill property Local connections G. Gerallt Davies - poet and writer; Pengwern Huw T. Edwards - politician, poet and writer; Tros fy Tresi; see village plaque Edward Nefydd Evans - gardener, nurseryman and plantsman; born in Rowen in the 1930s; left in spring 2015, after 85 years Harriet and Jack Evans - from Llannefydd/Llansannan in the 1930s Isoline Gee - Gilfach Arthur Tysilio Johnson - plantsman and garden writer; 1930s; A Woodland Garden in Wales Margaret Lacey - actress, ballet teacher and film star in the 1960s - 70s; I'm All Right Jack Kyffin Roberts - Wern; Tyddyn Robin, Llanbedr Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy H. G. Williams - writer Scriven Williams. References External links www.geograph.co.uk: photos of Rowen and surrounding area Rowen village community website Caerhun Villages in Conwy County Borough Villages in Snowdonia