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
18717
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Garden House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Kinmel
Easting
298520
Northing
374528
Street Side
Location
The house is set by the present entrance driveway from Glascoed, at the S point of Old Kinmel gardens.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The house was built in 1853 by Hugh Robert Hughes, nephew to William Lewis Hughes, 2nd Baron Dinorben,who had died the previous year. It is the first element of his extensive building programme at Kinmel.
Exterior
Built of coursed limestone, with slate roofs. Gothic style house of 2 storeys, with two gables to each front, and stone stacks. The E wing gable is set forward, with the entrance door on the W. Three-light trefoil-headed painted stone windows to each floor, but 4-light on the N of the W range, facing the extensive view. Minimal bargeboards. Stone stack with battered top section, with yellow pots on the stack on the W gable. On the N side, a heraldic stone carving displaying the Hughes arms impaling Ravensworth, the Lewis arms omitted.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection, March 1997.
Reason for designation
Included as a good and well preserved example of an estate cottage, a precursor of the Victorian work at Kinmel showing the style first adopted.
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