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
20486
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/09/1998
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
Western Cavern north of the path near main east vista fountain
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Locality
Glynllifon
Easting
245917
Northing
355381
Street Side
Location
Situated near the end of the east vista and to the west of the adjacent cavern; approximately 210m east of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Possibly the work of the 3rd Lord Newborough c1840 contemporary with his conversion of the adjacent cavern from a former ice-house. This cavern may have been a fernery.
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. Influence for some of the garden features came from the family’s grand tours.
Exterior
Set back from the path and composed of a large, semicircular forecourt cut into the side of the valley. It is surrounded by a stone revetment wall and to the centre is a round-arched entrance. Now blocked.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the many earlier C19 garden features within the especially fine grounds at Glynllifon.
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