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
20450
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/09/1998
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
Footbridge over service drive to west of Glynllifon House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Locality
Glynllifon
Easting
245586
Northing
355391
Street Side
Location
Spanning the rear service drive to west of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Dated 1840 and so contemporary with the rebuilding of the house and stables and general estate improvements by the 3rd Lord Newborough. Said to have given access from the laundry to the area in which the clothes were hung out to dry.
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
Cast-iron pedestrian bridge spanning the service drive and carried on the tops of the flanking rubble walls. Girders and parapets all latticed and the deck is also iron. The parapets curve outwards to end in balusters.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a good dated example of mid C19 iron bridge and for group value with the many other listed items associated with Glynllifon.
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