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
24982
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/03/2001
Date of Amendment
21/03/2001
Name of Property
Main Gateway to Nantclwyd Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llanelidan
Town
Locality
Nantclwyd Hall
Easting
311131
Northing
352493
Street Side
Location
Facing the A494 about 700 m north of Nantclwyd Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A gateway added to the park in 1966 by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for Sir Vivyan Naylor-Leyland. It is integral to his new scheme of landscaping the main approach to the house, taking advantage of the disused railway line.
Exterior
A three-arch gateway in axe-dressed, informally coursed local limestone masonry. The central arch is high and semicircular, crowned by an open pediment containing a roundel. The side arches, contained by low terminal piers, are small and narrow, beneath hollow-curved copings ramped up to the main arch. Plain plinth; plain rock-faced string courses at each arch abutment; plain keystones. Timber gates panelled without cross-bracing. The top rails of the main pair of gates are double-curved. The gateway includes a short length of park boundary wall to north and south.
Interior
Reason for designation
A fine example of the work of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, bearing his stylistic signature; integral to the embellishments to the grounds he undertook at Nantclwyd in the 1950s-1970s.
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