Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateway at the N entrance to Leighton Farm
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 24 December 1982
- Locality
- Leighton
- Town
- Forden
- Community
- Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64633, -3.11955
- Cadw reference
- 8669
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
At the N entrance to Leighton Farm on S side of a minor road between Leighton and Trelystan, and immediately E of the churchyard.
History
Contemporary with the adjacent church and Church Lodge, and forming the N entrance to Leighton Farm, the model farm on the Leighton Estate. John Naylor, a Liverpool banker, had acquired the Leighton Estate in 1846-47 and embarked on an ambitious programme of building, notably Leighton Hall, church and Leighton Farm, all designed by the Liverpool architect W.H. Gee and largely completed by the mid 1850s. Leighton Hall was constructed 1850-56, the church 1851-53. Naylor continued to extend and improve the Estate until his death in 1889. His grandson, Captain J.M. Naylor, sold Leighton Hall and the Estate in 1931.
Exterior
Gateway with entrances to Leighton Farm and church. The tripartite gateway to the Farm is framed by ashlar piers which are octagonal on square bases and have copings with cruciform gablets with trefoil infill. The coping of one of the central piers is missing. The central gates are missing but the ornate cast-iron side gates have fleur de lys finials. The gateway is linked to the churchyard gateway by a curved wall of snecked stone and coping surmounted by iron railings and with an intermediate pier. The churchyard gateway is flanked by similar piers and has cast-iron gates similar to those of the Farm gateway. To the N of this the wall continues with railings above and ends in a pier similar to those already described.
Reason for designation
The Leighton Estate is an exceptional example of high-Victorian estate development. It is remarkable for the scale and ambition of its conception and planning, the consistency of its design, the extent of its survival, and is the most complete example of its type in Wales. The gateway is an important element of this whole ensemble at Leighton. Its is an impressive mid C19 gateway and an integral component of a strong visual group comprising church, lodge and gateway, all designed in a Gothic idiom.
Nearby in the register
- Church LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy Trinity, LeightonReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pentre HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Retort HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.