Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stone needle 500m SW of Plas Penrhyn
Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, designated on 23 August 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 23 August 2002
- Locality
- Minffordd
- Community
- Penrhyndeudraeth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91870, -4.10012
- Cadw reference
- 26883
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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In a field on an elevated site some 500m SW of Plas Penrhyn, with commanding views across the Traeth Mawr.
History
Apparently built as an eyecatcher to serve Plas Penrhyn, probably at the time of the latter's remodelling for the industrialist Samuel Holland c1830.
Exterior
Narrow stone needle of obelisk type, approximately 3m in height; a single piece of slatestone.
Reason for designation
Listed as a second-quarter C19 eye-catcher.
Nearby in the register
- Plas PenrhynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castellated Garden Walls and Towers at Castell DeudraethGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Castell DeudraethDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Weigh House at Boston Lodge Railway WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.