19820

 

II  

Designated  

14/05/1998  

14/05/1998  

Vista Screen and Gate to W of Plas Brondanw  

 

Gwynedd  

Llanfrothen  

 

Plas Brondanw  

261606  

342298  

 

Located approximately 50m W of Plas Brondanw at the western boundary of the garden.  

Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  

 

Mid-C20 iron garden vista screen designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and owner of the Brondanw estate; made at the Britannia Foundries, Portmadog. The gardens were laid out to his designs in various stages between his inheritance of the estate in 1908 and his death in 1978. He created here one of Wales' most impressive gardens distinctive for its interlinked terraces, compartments and axial vistas that are aligned on the surrounding mountains of Moel Hebog, Moelwyn, Cnicht and Snowdon.  

C20 wrought-iron screen in 3 sections, bedded into concrete anchoring points. The central section has plain vertical railings with applied swag motifs at the top and flanking scrollwork; in the centre a small opening gate section. Large scrollwork overthrow with surmounting eagle crest; plain flanking sections with vertical railings, all painted in the distinctive Clough Williams-Ellis blue.  

 

Listed as an integral feature of the nationally important gardens laid out at Plas Brondanw by Clough Williams-Ellis.