Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateway at entrance to walled garden at Pinewood Towers
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mount Pleasant, Conwy, designated on 8 October 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1981
- Locality
- Mount Pleasant
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28163, -3.84959
- Cadw reference
- 3360
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)
- 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)
- 1899 · 94 Beaumaris (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the NW side of the house, reached by private road on the N side of Sychnant Pass Road, approximately 1.5km W of the town centre.
History
Built in the second half of the C19 as part of the setting of Pinewood Towers, known as Bron Lledraeth on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A castellated-style gateway of rubble stone, with higher outer round turrets, the tops overgrown. A pointed arch has brick voussoirs, and iron gate. In the spandrels are small blind roundels. The corbelled parapet has cock-and-hen coping.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a gateway of definite late C19 architectural character, and for group value with the adjacent garage archway.
Nearby in the register
- Archway at entrance to garage of Pinewood TowersDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tri DyffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castell Caer LleionHillfortunder 1 mi
- The Old Toll HouseTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.