Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates and Gate Piers at the W end of the Broad Walk
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1997
- Locality
- Kinmel
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26044, -3.53177
- Cadw reference
- 18691
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
The Broad Walk is a landscape feature within the upper part of the gardens, S of Kinmel. The Walk extends in a straight line between the E and W gate of the garden boundary wall.
History
The gateway and gates are said to be of c1808, and are part of the gardens for the first house, built for the Rev Edward Hughes between 1790 - 1810 by Samuel Wyatt.
Exterior
Piers built of limestone. Channel rusticated piers with inset corners, rising to a half-round necking moulding and a wide moulded cornice, capped by a stilted ball finial set over a step. Plain iron gates with dog rails.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the historic gardens surviving at Kinmel, and as one of the few elements remaining from the Samuel Wyatt house erected 1790 - 1810.
Nearby in the register
- Gazebo and Summerhouse in Venetian Garden at Kinmel, including attached stepsGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Walls and Gate Piers to the Venetian Garden at Kinmel, with 3 sets of stepsGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Fountain in Venetian Garden at KinmelGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Columns in the quadrants of the Venetian Garden at KinmelGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.