Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gate Piers and attached walls to Brooklands Hall
Guilsfield, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Garth, Guilsfield, Powys, designated on 22 February 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1995
- Locality
- Garth
- Community
- Guilsfield
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.68088, -3.16085
- Cadw reference
- 15799
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the bottom end of the driveway to Brooklands Hall.
Exterior
c,1867 entrance gate piers and curved forecourt walls to driveway to Brooklands Hall. Sandstone, square piers of ashlar, terminating in chamfered capstones with low pyramidal tops, the chamfers decorated with circular motifs. Rubble stone low walls in forward curve, with hog-backed copings. Iron chains on decorative iron standards.
Reason for designation
Included as contemporary with the listed Brooklands Hall, and in a similar style.
Nearby in the register
- Brook House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lower Garth (also known as Garth Isaf)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Brooklands Hall (School and Golf Academy)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Garden at Garth Farm and Heylin FarmGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.