Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18692
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Gates and Gate Piers at the E end of the Broad Walk
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Kinmel
Easting
298274
Northing
374757
Street Side
Location
The Broad Walk is a landscape feature within the upper part of the gardens, S of Kinmel. The Walk extends in a straight line between the E and W gate of the garden boundary wall.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The gateway and gates are said to be of c1808, and are part of the gardens for the first house, built for the Rev Edward Hughes between 1790 - 1810 by Samuel Wyatt.
Exterior
Piers built of limestone. Channel rusticated piers with inset corners, rising to a half-round necking moulding and a wide moulded cornice, capped by a stilted ball finial set over a step. Plain iron gates with dog rails.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of the historic gardens surviving at Kinmel, and as one of the few elements remaining from the Samuel Wyatt house erected 1790 - 1810.
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