Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gates at Nanhoron
Botwnnog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 February 1998
- Locality
- Botwnnog
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Botwnnog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85411, -4.55154
- Cadw reference
- 19327
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 300m E of Nanhoron, set back slightly to S of B4413 road, and forming the entrance to the Nanhoron estate.
History
C20 iron entrance gates; Edwardian in style.
Exterior
Off-centre pair of entrance gates, flanked by cast-iron gate piers and gates: piers crowned by urn finials which rest on square domed bases, which are pierced. Urns have lion mask handles and a fret frieze. The fronts of the piers are decorated with a pierced banded frieze and below a design incorporating vertically interlinked ovals and diagonal lines, with plain vertical bars to the base. The railings and top rail curve up to meet the gate piers on either side. Incorporated in the railings to the left and right of the main gate piers are pairs of smaller flat piers, similarly decorated but with tiny C18 style urn finials; to the E these flank small gate next to entrance lodge.
Reason for designation
A well-designed and finely detailed set of entrance gates, forming an impressive landmark on the approach to Nanhoron.
Nearby in the register
- The Lodge at NanhoronDomesticunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- The Coach House at NanhoronDomesticunder 1 mi
- RhydgaledDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.