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
25110
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/04/2001  
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001  
Name of Property
Gateway and wall to N side of service yard at Gyrn Castle  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Flintshire  
Community
Llanasa  
Town
 
Locality
Gyrn Castle  
Easting
311145  
Northing
381569  
Street Side
 
Location
On the NW side 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 may be contemporary with the 1817-24 house, but the gateway is clearly later, and was probably built in the third quarter of the C19. It is first shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1871.  

Exterior
A castellated rubble stone wall in 2 facets, from the NW corner of the house to the E side of the main coach house and stable block. A central gateway has been inserted at an angle to the flanking walls, and has a 4-centred arch, the jambs having mainly rock-faced coursed stone. On its E side, at a lower level, is a 2-centred arch at the lower-storey level of the house.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an integral component of the well-preserved service buildings at Gyrn Castle.  

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