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
24/02/2004
Date of Amendment
24/02/2004
Name of Property
Gate piers to Bryneithyn Hall, at Bryneithyn Lodge
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Location
Situated on entrance drive by Bryneithyn Lodge, some 800m NW of Figure Four crossroads, Llanfarian.
History
Gate piers dated 1854, erected for William Richardes of Bryneithyn Hall, a second set on the other side of the Hall appear to be C20 replicas.
Exterior
Mid-C19 entrance to Bryneithyn Hall comprising pair of square piers with caps and large carved stone near-spherical acorn finials. Piers are rubble stone with projecting flattened pyramid caps in slate. To right, near base of acorn in raised numerals is '1854'. Attached sections of curved walling of rubble stone, formerly limewashed, with gabled cement coping.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of gate piers with flanking walls of distinctive design, part of the 1854 phase of work at Bryneithyn Hall.
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