Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled Avenue with part of Garden Wall at Plas-yn-rhos
Llangynhafal, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Plas-yn-rhos, Llangynhafal, Denbighshire, designated on 30 July 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 July 2002
- Locality
- Plas-yn-rhos
- Community
- Llangynhafal
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14463, -3.31166
- Cadw reference
- 26802
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the entrance to Plas-yn-rhos.
History
Probably C18
Exterior
Brickwork walls defining a short formal avenue to Plas-yn-rhos, with a gateway at each end, appended to the surviving wall of the walled garden to the south of the house. The walls are about 2.5 m high, with Dutch-style hollows where the copings dip down to the gate positions. Stone balls at top. Brickwork mounting block outside at left.
In the south face of the surviving wall of the walled garden are 2 wide bee-boles.
Reason for designation
A formal avenue to a house of superior farm status, listed also for group value with Plas-yn-rhos.
Nearby in the register
- Plas-yn-rhos Old FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llanychan Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont TelpynTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Telpyn (partly in Llangynhafal community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.