Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Inner Boundary Wall at Pentrehobyn including attached gate piers on main drive
Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pentrehobyn, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, designated on 5 December 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 December 1997
- Locality
- Pentrehobyn
- Community
- Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.15333, -3.12410
- Cadw reference
- 19109
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Bordering the main garden and including the gated entrance from the main drive to the forecourt of the house.
History
Pentrehobyn was built by the Lloyd family in the mid C16 and early C17. It was remodelled in the C19 and this inner boundary wall to the pleasure gardens is either contemporary with this later work or post 1871 at the time of the present garden layout.
Exterior
Low, 1m high, stone wall with pitched stone copings. Runs south from the corner of the walled kitchen garden, near the llettau warden's house, along a C19 boundary beyond what may have been the edge of a C17 court or garden. This then turns at right angles to run west along the edge of the pleasure garden in front of the house turning back to meet the main drive. Here there are stone, panel-sided, gate-piers with large caps and ball finials. The wall continues on the other side of the drive, north and then east along the back of the house, now with flat coping. It steps back again at the north-east end by the large barn.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Pentrehobyn and associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- PentrehobynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llettau at PentrehobynCivilunder 1 mi
- Barn to NE of PentrehobynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Stables and attached Walled Garden to NE of PentrehobynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.