Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate piers and flanking walls at Pennsylvania Lodge
Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Whitford, Mostyn, Flintshire, designated on 28 March 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 28 March 2002
- Locality
- Whitford
- Community
- Mostyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29610, -3.28385
- Cadw reference
- 26272
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 LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid 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)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the S entrance to Mostyn Park approximately 300m NW of Whitford Church on the N side of a minor road between Whitford and Tre-Mostyn.
History
Mostyn Hall is a large country house, the seat of the Mostyn family and its antecedents since the C15. The house, mainly of the C16 and C17, was extensively remodelled by Ambrose Poynter, architect, in 1846-7, subsequent to which a series of lodges and gates were added at the various entrances to the park. The gateway, at the entrance to Mostyn Park from Whitford village, is probably contemporary with Pennsylvania Lodge, which was built in 1849, and shown clearly on the 1871 Ordnance Survey. It is within a S extension of Mostyn Park made in the early C19 by acquiring land previously belonging to the Bychton Estate.
Exterior
Of ashlar masonry and comprising square gate piers with pyramidal caps, set back at an angle to the road. Flanking walls are aligned to the road and have saddleback copings and terminate in square piers with pyramidal caps.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a fine group of C19 lodges and gates forming the architectural setting of Mostyn Park.
Nearby in the register
- Pennsylvania LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tomb of Moses GriffithReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Downing Hall Inscribed Stone (now in Whitford Church)Inscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Church of St Beuno and St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.