Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate Piers, Gates & attached Walls at the end of the Northern Driveway to Y Glyn
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22022, -4.15739
- Cadw reference
- 4059
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At a splayed angle to the roadside; at the base of the wooded driveway.
History
Built between 1846 and 1861 when the estate was owned by the Chester to Holyhead Railway Company.
Exterior
Coursed rubble masonry. Square tall gatepiers with high plinth; pineapple finials and wrought iron gates. Screen walls stepped down and set back to either side; each have 2 large circular openings rising from plinth to coping with keystones, inset ironwork grilles and dividing pilasters. Octagonal piers at ends with freestone cap and finial (the latter is missing to the right). The entrance of the driveway has stone setts.
Reason for designation
Group value with the railway bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Railway Bridge over the Northern Driveway to Y GlynTransportunder 1 mi
- BodlondebDomesticunder 1 mi
- BodlondebDomesticunder 1 mi
- BodlondebDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.