Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates and Gatepiers at SE corner of Plas Brondanw Gardens including Garden Wall to NE.
Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1998
- Locality
- Plas Brondanw
- Community
- Llanfrothen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95927, -4.06214
- Cadw reference
- 19812
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
Located at the southern corner of Plas Brondanw Gardens adjacent to the lane, the associated section of garden wall terminating at the Aedicular Triple Arch.
History
Garden feature built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and owner of the Brondanw estate. The gardens were laid out to his designs in various stages between his inheritance of the estate in 1908 and his death in 1978. He created here one of Wales' most impressive gardens distinctive for its interlinked terraces, compartments and axial vistas that are aligned on the surrounding mountains of Moel Hebog, Moelwyn, Cnicht and Snowdon.
Exterior
Tall, elegant gate-piers of rough-dressed local stone. Adjoining sections of wall slope up to the piers on both sides and also down to a frontal masonry projection at L. Plain, rivetted iron gates with shaped top; moulded capping with cement-stone urn finials.
The wall returns immediately beyond the R gate-pier and continues for approximately 30m to the NW where it joins the aedicule; plain wooden gate to the SW of this.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral feature of the nationally important gardens laid out at Plas Brondanw by Clough Williams-Ellis.
Nearby in the register
- Raised Terrace and Steps at SW end of Plas Brondanw Gardens including ExedraGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Ionic Column and associated Pond Basin at Plas Brondanw GardensGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Aedicular Triple-arched Niche at Plas Brondanw Gardens including adjoining Wall and Gate to NEGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Classical Statue at Plas Brondanw GardensGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.