Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates, Gatepiers and Screen Walls at Pale Hall
Llandderfel, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandderfel, Gwynedd, designated on 31 January 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Llandderfel
- Community
- Llandderfel
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91654, -3.51146
- Cadw reference
- 24629
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 136 Bala (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Fronting the road in an arc at the entrance to the former principal drive to Pale Hall.
History
Sequence of gates, gatepiers and screen walls built c1870 as part of the original design for Pale Hall, S Pountney Smith, architect of Shrewsbury.
Exterior
Gates, gatepiers and entrance screen. The walls and piers are of uncoursed sandstone ashlar blocks with chamfered copings. The ensemble consists of two pairs of squat octagonal piers flanking a wide central entrance and narrower outer pedestrian entrances. Screen walls adjoin to R and L and curve out in a concave arc in three sloped-up stages, before terminating in similar piers. Geometric ball finials on sloped collars. The gates are wooden with simple arcading in 2 tiers and with end finials; the pedestrian gates are fragmentary, that to the R now with only the frame surviving.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good sequence of gates, gatepiers and screen walls built c1870 as part of the original design for Pale Hall S. Pountney Smith, architect of Shrewsbury.
Group value with Ty Bryn (the adjacent lodge).
Nearby in the register
- Ty Bryn (Lodge to Pale Hall)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Pont-y-Bryn including walls and parapets to carriageway adjoining to the E and WTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont FawrTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont FawrBridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.