Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate piers and walls at entrance to Glan Gwna Hall
Waunfawr, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 21 July 1999
- Locality
- Caeathro
- Community
- Waunfawr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13251, -4.24489
- Cadw reference
- 22054
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the north side of Ffordd Waenfawr at the main entrance to Glan Gwna Hall; the walls run from Grand Lodge to the west, break at the main entrance, turn to the north at the cross-roads in Caeathro and end by Pont Pwll-y-bar.
History
Erected c1893 to define the land belonging to Glan Gwna Hall, much of which is now occupied by Glan Gwna Holiday Park.
Exterior
4 square rubblestone block gate piers with plain moulded capping and globe finials, the inner piers flanking the entrance and linked to the outer piers by low balustraded walls with square section piers. Beyond the outer piers are the boundary walls, which are ramped down where they meet the piers; uncoursed rubblestone with stone-on-edge coping.
Reason for designation
Included as the original gate piers and boundary walls to Glan Gwna Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Grand Lodge to Glan Gwna HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn Eden and terrace walls to frontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Courtyard outbuildings and retaining walls to adjacent formal garden area at Glan Gwna HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glan Gwna HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.