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
25129
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2001
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
Gate piers S of St Benedict's Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Llanasa
Town
Locality
Talacre
Easting
310332
Northing
383150
Street Side
Location
On the S side of St Benedict's Lodge and the E side of the main drive to Talacre Abbey from Gronant.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Talacre Abbey was built 1824-9 by Thomas Jones, architect, for Sir Edward Mostyn, on the site of an earlier house. Jones also designed a number of estate buildings, including the adjacent St Benedict'sLodge, which is shown on the 1839 Tithe map. The gate piers are contemporary with the lodge and stand at the N end of a former drive across the S end of the park at Talacre Abbey. (The corresponding gate piers and lodge at the SE end of the park are ruinous.)
Exterior
Two monolithic octagonal gate piers of pecked stone, with bell-shaped caps. The gate is replaced. On the S side is a later kissing gate.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as the best preserved of several surviving gateways associated with Talacre Abbey, for group value with St Benedict's Lodge and as an integral component of the landscape park at Talacre Abbey.
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