19823

 

II  

Designated  

14/05/1998  

14/05/1998  

Dolphin Gates and Gatepiers at Plas Brondanw including Railings to NW  

 

Gwynedd  

Llanfrothen  

 

Plas Brondanw  

261628  

342334  

 

Located at the northern boundary of the garden, adjacent to the column with bust of Augustus.  

Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  

 

Wrought-iron gates and gatepiers designed in 1964 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.  

Tall, off-set rubble gatepiers with oversailing coursing to the top, forming moulded capping; reconstituted stone flaming-urn finials. Fine, decorative wrought-iron gates painted in the distinctive Clough Williams-Ellis blue (removed for exhibition at the time of survey, 3/97). To the L a lower rubble wall returns to the SW for approximately 2m; here, set against the wall, is a slate bench on cement-stone support. Beyond, a screen of plain railings with fleurs-de-lis heads runs for 5m before terminating in a plain square rubble pier, stepped-down.  

 

Listed as a particularly fine pair of ironwork gates and an a integral feature of the nationally important gardens laid out at Plas Brondanw by Clough Williams-Ellis.