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Gatehouse at Gilar, with attached courtyard walls

A Grade II* Listed Building in Pentrefoelas, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0348 / 53°2'5"N

Longitude: -3.6658 / 3°39'56"W

OS Eastings: 288393

OS Northings: 349909

OS Grid: SH883499

Mapcode National: GBR 69.DXP0

Mapcode Global: WH66C.NZKB

Plus Code: 9C5R28MM+WM

Entry Name: Gatehouse at Gilar, with attached courtyard walls

Listing Date: 23 June 1967

Last Amended: 19 October 1998

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 263

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300000263

Location: Gilar lies to the S of Rhydlydan, approached by a farm road. The gatehouse is on the N side of the front walled court, with an axial path leading directly to the porch of the E house.

County: Conwy

Town: Pentrefoelas

Community: Pentrefoelas

Community: Pentrefoelas

Locality: Tre Brys

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

Built in 1623, the date appearing on the overmantel on the upper floor, for Thomas Price Wynn, the year before his appointment to the post of High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1624.

Exterior

Built of local rubble stone, freestone dressings to windows. Gabled slate roofs, the E gable with a stone stack. Two-storey square gatehouse on a small scale, comprising an external gate and passage on the ground level, and an upper guard chamber approached by an external stair on the E. The external gate is set in a round headed arch, secured by a timber plank screen on the inside with a elliptical headed wicket gate, retaining its original iron furniture. Gate and screen liberally studded with doornails. Above is a stone bearing the inscription TPW / 1623. The inner arch is unmoulded and round headed. The upper chamber is lit by 3-light mullioned windows each side, ovolo-moulded externally, chamfered internally. The copings of the gables have been removed, but kneelers remain. Rainwater pipes in aluminium carry the date 1623.

The courtyard walls butt to the front of the gatehouse on each side. They are dry-stone built, approximately 2m high and form a formal rectangle on the N side of the house, incorporating the rear wall of an outbuilding on the W, and step back at lower level to a further outbuilding on the E. There is one possible bee bole on the W side. A cobble path leads directly from the gatehouse to the door of the E house, and incorporates initials TPW and HWD in quartzite.

Interior

Eleven steps with stone parapet on the E of the gate leads up to the door to the upper guard chamber beside the chimney breast. This is plastered and ceiled and has a fine plaster overmantel, though restored or copied, displaying the raised arms of Thomas Price Wynn within a strapwork cartouche, and the initials and date TP W / 16 23. Below is the inscription MDCXXIIIVMMEVMINDOMINO. The rose charge on the shield has been renewed.

Reasons for Listing

Included at Grade II* as an outstanding example of a small gatehouse in its courtyard setting erected by an aspiring landowner in the earlier C17, and including the original outer gate and good plasterwork internally. Of group value with the house.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Barn at Gilar
    Gilar lies at the end of a farm road, S of Rhydlydan. The barn is attached to the W end of the house, and encloses the N courtyard on the W.
  • II* Gilar
    The group of buildings at Gilar lies apart, to the S of the hamlet of Rhydlydan, and is reached by a minor farm road.
  • II Barn at Gilar
    The barn stands on the E side of the farmyard, which lies on the E side of the N courtyard of the house.
  • II Outbuilding at Plas Iolyn
    The building stands apart, E of the house, on sloping ground, now the garden, and near the approach drive.
  • II Plas Iolyn
    The farm lies in the S part of the community, and is reached by a farm road running S from Rhydlydan.
  • II Washhouse and outbuilding at Plas Iolyn
    The small building lies between the Great Barn and the house, and is set parallel to the barn.
  • II Great Barn at Plas Iolyn (also known as Esgubor Ddegwm)
    The great barn and attached tower are set in an elevated position SW of the house.
  • II Animal house and attached yard at Plas Iolyn
    The farm building lies immediately NW and in line with the wash-house and outbuilding at Plas Iolyn, adjacent to the house, and below the Great Barn.

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