Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
4750
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1966
Date of Amendment
10/04/2000
Name of Property
Front garden walls, gate piers and mounting block at Cae'r Berllan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Town
Locality
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Easting
266297
Northing
307789
Street Side
Location
The front garden walls define the raised rectangular garden in front of the main NW elevation of Cae'r Berllan.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The front garden walls and gatepiers were probably built c1690 as a further gentrification of the principal house of the district, at the same time the house was being remodelled by the Owen family.
Exterior
The front garden walls are built of squared local rubble on boulder foundations. They define an approximately square levelled area of which one side is the elevation of the house. Approximately 2.3m high, capped with a stone coping with cyma moulded sides, set on a projecting slate course. Four steps, diametrically opposite the house door, lead down to a raised pavement which extends SW to a 5-step mounting block against the outside of the wall. Tall gatepiers of dressed stone flank the entrance, rising to a moulded cornice, above which a shaped block rises to square ogee terminals. The two outer corners of the walls are also of dressed stone with a similar cornice, but carry a rectangular block and knob finial. Modern timber gates to a traditional pattern.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included at Grade II* as a fine set of garden walls and piers, and an important element of the layout around the grade II* Cae'r Berllan with which they are of group value.
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