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.
Date of Designation
30/08/2002
Date of Amendment
30/08/2002
Name of Property
Gate piers, gate and flanking walls at Mold Lodge
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Location
The SE entrance to the park at Penbedw, N of a junction with a minor road to Llandyrnog.
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
History
Penbedw was a Georgian country house purchased by William Barber Buddicom, an established railway engineer, in 1852. Improvements were made to the park soon after, including Mold Lodge and its adjacent gateway, which formed one of the main entrances to the park. The gateway and lodge are shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey. The main house was demolished in 1958.
Exterior
Comprising monolithic square gate piers with pyramidal caps and a wide wooden gate. Flanking walls of snecked dressed stone with ramped copings curve outwards to the road, and on the W side curve round to the minor road on the SE side of the park entrance. On the E side the wall continues as a rubble-stone wall in front of Mold Lodge.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved mid C19 gateway forming a strong visual group with Mold Lodge in a prominent location.
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