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
20449
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/09/1998
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
Rubble-walled rear service drive to west of Glynllifon House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Locality
Glynllifon
Easting
245595
Northing
355385
Street Side
Location
To west of the house, these high rubble walls border the rear service drive.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
c1840 (see date on footbridge) and contemporary with the mid C19 rebuilding of the house and stables and general estate improvements by the 3rd Lord Newborough.
Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.
Exterior
Rubble screen walls approximately 4m high bordering the rear service drive which is approximately 4m wide and climbs eastwards towards the kitchen court at the back of the house.
The drive loops to the right and then left and at the midpoint of this corner is a dressed stone archway with lamp brackets into courtyard in front of stable block. At right angles to this to the west is a smaller archway into the narrow yard behind the stables that was probably also reached via the now blocked archway in the screen wall at the west end of the service drive. The wall to the north slopes downward to about 1m height before ascending back up to full height where it meets at a skewed angle the further rubble wall that borders the parallel track from the kitchen gardens, and the courtyard by the Palm House, up to the accommodation above the kitchen court. On both sides the wall runs right up to the house.
This drive is crossed midway along by the dated iron footbridge separately listed.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with neighbouring listed items at Glynllifon for its contribution to the historic character of the immediate surroundings of the house.
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