Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateway and boundary wall to W of service yard at Gyrn Castle
Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gyrn Castle, Llanasa, Flintshire, designated on 30 April 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2001
- Locality
- Gyrn Castle
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32312, -3.33587
- Cadw reference
- 25106
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
At the W end of the yard at the rear of the house.
History
The present Gyrn Castle was built for John Douglas, a Holywell cotton manufacturer, in the period 1817-24, and was an enlargement of an earlier house. The house was subsequently bought by Sir Edward Bates, a Liverpool merchant and ship owner. The boundary wall and gateway were built in the third quarter of the C19 and are first shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey, but details of the gateway suggest that in its present form it is a later insertion.
Exterior
An embattled high wall of rubble stone, with a gateway at the E end abutting the NW corner of the walled garden. The gateway has a 4-centred arch, which is of coursed stone in the R jamb. The wall on the W side is stepped out in front of the gateway.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral component of the well-preserved service buildings at Gyrn Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Walled garden at Gyrn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Stable at W end of service yard at Gyrn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Coach house & stable block at Gyrn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gateway and wall to N side of service yard at Gyrn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.