Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel-y-graig Lodge and adjoining gatepiers
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1992
- Locality
- Vaynol Park
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20270, -4.17839
- Cadw reference
- 4201
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
The lodge is set behind the boundary wall on the E side of the Park, on the road formerly leading to the village of Capel-y-graig.
History
Built 1863-64 at the start of the construction of the Estate Boundary Wall (q.v.), being part of the almost continual improvements carried out on the Vaynol Estate.
Exterior
Built of rubble with a slate roof, the gate piers of freestone. Single storey, 'L'-plan. The design is distinctive for the lean-to verandah on the S side, returning around the E corner in front of the main entrance, a detail favoured in this particular building campaign ( q.v. Wern Gogas). Here the columns are of turned limestone. Boarded door and a canted bay window with transomed glazing on the eastern forward gable. Small pane sash windows on the S side, and modern windows to the rear. A central rendered chimney stack, perhaps replacing one with octagonal shafts.
The gatepiers stand immediately SE; square and tall, with necking band and weathered copings.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other listed items in Vaynol Park.
Nearby in the register
- Stables and Brood Mare's YardAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Classical bust on stele in niche of garden wall at Vaynol Old Hall.Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Walls to inner and outer gardens on E side of Vaynol Old HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Terraced Garden to N of Vaynol Old HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.