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
4059
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1988
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
Gate Piers, Gates & attached Walls at the end of the Northern Driveway to Y Glyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
256057
Northing
371414
Street Side
Location
At a splayed angle to the roadside; at the base of the wooded driveway.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built between 1846 and 1861 when the estate was owned by the Chester to Holyhead Railway Company.
Exterior
Coursed rubble masonry. Square tall gatepiers with high plinth; pineapple finials and wrought iron gates. Screen walls stepped down and set back to either side; each have 2 large circular openings rising from plinth to coping with keystones, inset ironwork grilles and dividing pilasters. Octagonal piers at ends with freestone cap and finial (the latter is missing to the right). The entrance of the driveway has stone setts.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with the railway bridge.
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