Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Estate Boundary Wall to Gwrych Castle Park (part in Abergele Community)
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gwrych, Abergele, Conwy, designated on 5 August 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1997
- Locality
- Gwrych
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28287, -3.59507
- Cadw reference
- 18659
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Gwrych Castle lies in parkland immediately W of Abergele. The wall forms the park boundary, extending into Llanddulas and Rhyd-y-foel and Betws-yn-rhos communities.
History
Gwrych Castle was created from 1816 onwards by Lloyd Bamford Hesketh in association with Thomas Rickman who is best known for his writings on Gothic architecture. The boundary wall, with its various lodges and gates probably followed the main building's completion in c1822, although works continued until c1850.
Exterior
Built of uncoursed local limestone. Approximately 3.2m high, capped with an oversailing stone-on-edge coping, the stones laid alternately vertically and lengthways to produce a rugged effect sometimes known as "cock and hen" pattern. The wall included in this community extends from the King's Lodge to 29338 37718 where it passes into Llanddulas community, reduced in one place for the golf club, and from the King's Lodge along the A547 to 29283 37808, short of Hen Wrych farm lodge, this stretch reduced only in one place 100m W of the Kings Lodge to provide a secondary drive.
Reason for designation
Included as a vital element in the setting of the Grade I Gwrych Castle, one of the few mostly complete park boundaries in Wales and, with its lodges, a monument of special interest in the history of the picturesque movement.
Nearby in the register
- King's Lodge, also known as Abergele LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables and Coach-house Range at Glan AberDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glan AberDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nant-y-Bella LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.