Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance gate, flanking walls and railings adjoining First Lodge to Llanerchydol Hall
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanerchydol, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 11 March 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Llanerchydol
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66039, -3.15905
- Cadw reference
- 7739
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)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Mark the former entrance to the drive to Llanerchydol Hall, between the Llanfair and Llanfyllin Roads on the roundabout to the W of Welshpool.
Exterior
History: Contemporary with the adjacent lodge, and almost certainly with the remodelling of Llanerchydol Hall in 1820. The Reptons are thought to have been the architects employed at the Hall, and it is likely that the same architects were responsible for the lodge, gates and railings. The layout of the railings was modified as part of a road scheme, c1980-90, when the forecourt of the lodge was shortened.
Description: A length of railing runs parallel to Llanerchydol Lodge, with the gate across the former drive aligned with the lower corner of the Lodge. Further lengths of railing continue the line of the front elevation of the Lodge, and return to enclose a small forecourt in front of its gable end. The cast-iron railings have trefoiled heads, and are carried on stone plinth walls between octagonal piers with raked copings. Heavier piers flank the gate, and the stone traceried balustraded walls to either side of it. The gate is timber, with triangular braces forming geometric tracery between each post. Remains of iron cresting on its top rail.
The railings, walls and gates form an important component of a group with Llanerchydol Lodge, and part of the historical and architectural context of Llanerchydol Hall, as a thorough exercise in Picturesque Gothic.
Nearby in the register
- First Lodge to Llanerchydol HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate HouseTransportunder 1 mi
- 34 Mount StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 35 Mount StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.