Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled Avenue with part of Garden Wall at Plas-yn-rhos
Llangynhafal, Denbighshire, Wales
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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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 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.