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
4360
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
31/03/1999
Name of Property
Towered Gatehouse to Broom Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanystumdwy
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Broom Hall
Easting
241340
Northing
337201
Street Side
N
Location
The building stands between the stable yard and Broom Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1830 for Rowland Jones II of Broom Hall as an imposing gateway entrance to the Hall, which had been standing for some 50 years.
Exterior
The gateway is conceived in the form of a triumphal arch of which the central section is raised as a tower. Built of rubble stonework, but ashlar gritstone facings to the lowest storey. A central round-headed carriageway with flanking 'pedestrian' arches, the E containing the stair to the upper floors. The central arch has finely jointed voussoirs, the skew-backs stepped and coursed in, and a central keystone, and similar arches to the side openings. Above the central arch a faint inscription reads R JONES Esqr / 1830, set immediately below the horizontal string course. The first floor is of equal width for part of its height, and has a pair of round-headed windows with 18-pane sashes and coloured glass set in lead decorative fanlights. Above the string the tower narrows to a square plan, the second stage having a similar pair of windows. Above a further string the tower offsets to the third and top stage, which has a clock face and two round-headed louvred openings to the upper bell stage. The tower is capped by a pyramidal slated roof and carries a central weather vane on a scrolled iron support. The N elevation is identical, but the side openings have retained their bead-panelled doors and glazed fanlights.
Interior
The first floor contains a square room with a carved slate fireplace, a moulded cornice and a ceiling rose. From here a stair with plain stick balusters rises to the 2nd floor, without embellishments, and from where a further stair rises to the third floor. This is matchboard lined and has the clock mechanism in a central box (part removed for safe keeping). A further identical stair leads to the bell chamber, the bells also removed. King-post and single tie beam roof.
Reason for designation
Included as an interesting and unusual gatehouse with clock tower, part of the important setting of Broom Hall.
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