Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate piers to Bryneithyn Hall, at Bryneithyn Lodge
Llanfarian, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfarian, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 24 February 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 February 2004
- Locality
- Llanfarian
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Llanfarian
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.38412, -4.08179
- Cadw reference
- 82500
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on entrance drive by Bryneithyn Lodge, some 800m NW of Figure Four crossroads, Llanfarian.
History
Gate piers dated 1854, erected for William Richardes of Bryneithyn Hall, a second set on the other side of the Hall appear to be C20 replicas.
Exterior
Mid-C19 entrance to Bryneithyn Hall comprising pair of square piers with caps and large carved stone near-spherical acorn finials. Piers are rubble stone with projecting flattened pyramid caps in slate. To right, near base of acorn in raised numerals is '1854'. Attached sections of curved walling of rubble stone, formerly limewashed, with gabled cement coping.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of gate piers with flanking walls of distinctive design, part of the 1854 phase of work at Bryneithyn Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Garden walls and gazebo at Bryneithyn HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryneithyn HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cwmcoedwig HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- TanycastellDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.