Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatepiers at former St John's Lodge, Hawarden Estate
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hawarden, Deeside, Flintshire, designated on 17 February 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 17 February 1999
- Locality
- Hawarden
- Town
- Deeside
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.17700, -3.02730
- Cadw reference
- 21366
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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
At S edge of Top Park, Hawarden Castle estate, and reached by public footpath which skirts the estate boundary wall from the car park adjoining the A550 in Hawarden village.
History
From an early C19 plan of the Hawarden estate, it apears that the owner, Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, began to make a park in the area to SW of the castle. This park is bounded for much of its perimeter by stone walls which run from the W end of the garden terrace around the foot of the castle and N to the village gate, south along the Old Hope Road and return along the S boundary to reach the St John's Lodge gatepiers. A former drive (now a track) leads south to the Old Hope Road, but within the park the drive was never constructed. It is assumed that these gatepiers date from estate improvements in the first half of C19. Paired lodges within gates now demolished and gatepiers altered in recent times.
Exterior
To centre, a pair of rusticated stone piers to carriage entrance with fielded block above cornice band to right-hand pier, modern wooden gate. Short sections of ashlar walling link outwards to monolithic panelled piers with moulded courses (no finials); matching monolithic square piers to outer sides are linked to short sections of ashlar boundary wall. Plain iron railings to outer (pedestrian) openings.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the remarkable landscaped park to Grade I listed Hawarden Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Hawarden CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- Hawarden Castle (Old)Defenceunder 1 mi
- Harwarden HayesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glynne CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.