Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatelodge to Eyarth House
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 2001
- Locality
- Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
- Town
- Ruthin
- Community
- Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.08740, -3.30280
- Cadw reference
- 25228
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
At entrance to grounds of Eyarth House, ½km west of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd.
History
Built in 1862.
Exterior
A small gate lodge of cruciform plan, with four gabled roofs of equal height. Local limestone masonry with decorative slate roof, including the special feature of decorative slates in the roof valleys.
The front facing the gateway to Eyarth House is the north elevation, consisting of the door in the gabled north wing flanked by lattice casement windows. Modern gabled hood to door supported on brackets. Timber bargeboards. Small similar windows in side gables. The front door is boarded and has an arched frame.
A small additional wing has been unobtrusively placed in the south west angle. Small lean-to addition to the south-facing gable.
The date is displayed on a stone above the door.
Interior
Interior under renovation at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
A small mid-Victorian gatelodge in simplified picturesque style which has retained its character and is of group value with Eyarth House.
Nearby in the register
- Pont EyarthTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Eyarth (partly in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd community)Transportunder 1 mi
- LimekilnIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Eyarth HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.