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.
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
10/11/1994
Name of Property
Gatepiers of former entrance to Bodwyddan Hall
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
Set into the boundary wall at the N side of Ffordd Ffranc (the Dyserth Road), on the boundary with the community of Dyserth. Aligned with the centre of the S elevation of Bodrhyddan Hall.
History
The main entrance to Bodrhyddan Hall was formerly in the centre of the S range, but the orientation of the house was changed with the addition of Nesfield's west entrance front, and a formal garden was laid out on the former drive to the S. The gatepiers of the earlier entrance were incorporated in a boundary wall. They are almost certainly late C17.
Exterior
Panelled ashlar piers with moulded caps carrying heraldic blackamoors' busts. The two piers are linked by cast-iron spear-head railings on a low rubble plinth wall.
Reason for designation
A significant component of the late C17 layout of Bodrhyddan.
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