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
19807
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
14/05/1998  
Date of Amendment
14/05/1998  
Name of Property
Gates and Gatepiers opposite the Coach-house including Curved Wall adjoining to NE.  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Llanfrothen  
Town
 
Locality
Plas Brondanw Estate  
Easting
261625  
Northing
342222  
Street Side
 
Location
Immediately opposite the Coach-house at Plas Brondanw, at the foot of the path up to Brondanw Tower.  

Description


Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  
Period
 

History
Gates and gatepiers built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and owner of the Brondanw estate from 1908 until his death in 1978. Conceived as vista gates at the start of a long straight path from Plas Brondanw to the foot of the hill upon which the folly Brondanw Tower stands.  

Exterior
Tall rubble gatepiers, sloped-up from square buttressed walls on either side. The top stages are off-set and have reconstitiuted stone moulded capping with flaming urn finials. Simple low iron gates with urn finials, painted in the distinctive gold and light blue estate colours.. Adjoining to the L pier, a rubble wall slopes up on a natural rock roundation to join a concave curved wall some 15m long and 1.5m high; stone ball finials terminate this at either end, that to the L on a square pier with reconstituted capping.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as part of Clough Willams-Ellis' work at Plas Brondanw and for group value with other listed items.  

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