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
25106
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2001
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
Gateway and boundary wall to W of service yard at Gyrn Castle
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Llanasa
Town
Locality
Gyrn Castle
Easting
311117
Northing
381521
Street Side
Location
At the W end of the yard at the rear of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The present Gyrn Castle was built for John Douglas, a Holywell cotton manufacturer, in the period 1817-24, and was an enlargement of an earlier house. The house was subsequently bought by Sir Edward Bates, a Liverpool merchant and ship owner. The boundary wall and gateway were built in the third quarter of the C19 and are first shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey, but details of the gateway suggest that in its present form it is a later insertion.
Exterior
An embattled high wall of rubble stone, with a gateway at the E end abutting the NW corner of the walled garden. The gateway has a 4-centred arch, which is of coursed stone in the R jamb. The wall on the W side is stepped out in front of the gateway.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral component of the well-preserved service buildings at Gyrn Castle.
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