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
3340
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
08/10/1981  
Date of Amendment
05/05/2006  
Name of Property
Garden walls, gate piers and railings to SW of Bodysgallen Hall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Conwy  
Town
 
Locality
Bodysgallen  
Easting
279910  
Northing
379258  
Street Side
 
Location
On the SW side of the house.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Bodysgallen was built in 1620 by Robert Wynne. His grandson, also Robert, added the NW wing in the late C17, and his son Dr Hugh Wynne added the NE wing in 1730. The house passed by marriage to the Mostyn family in 1776 and subsequently became a dower house. Lady Augusta Mostyn gave the house to her son Henry, who enlarged the house in 1884, 1894 and 1905. It has been a hotel since 1981. The wall enclosing a lawn to the SW of the house was built in the 2nd half of the C19, possibly after 1883 when the house passed to Henry and Lady Pamela Mostyn, who made improvements to the garden. The wall is first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.  

Exterior
A rubble-stone wall. Its SW end abuts Garden Cottage. The main section is approximately 20m long with, to the NE end, a 10m long splayed section that terminates with simple rubble piers at the entrance to the water garden. The main section has a gateway comprising monolithic tooled-stone round-topped gate piers, and iron standards, but the gate is missing. The gateway is flanked by coped dwarf walls and railings with rounded finials and cast-iron urn finial to the central standard.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C19 garden feature and for group value with garden and other listed items at Bodysgallen.  

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