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Entrance gates, piers and walling at Cors y Gedol Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Tal-y-bont, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7803 / 52°46'49"N

Longitude: -4.0965 / 4°5'47"W

OS Eastings: 258692

OS Northings: 322362

OS Grid: SH586223

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.XTLS

Mapcode Global: WH56D.1CKX

Plus Code: 9C4QQWJ3+4C

Entry Name: Entrance gates, piers and walling at Cors y Gedol Hall

Listing Date: 13 April 2005

Last Amended: 13 April 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 84343

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300084343

Location: Set back slightly from the ENE side of the A496 between Dyffryn Ardudwy and Tal-y-bont, in the small hamlet of Llanddwywe. Flanking the driveway (Ffordd Gors) leading to Cors y Gedol Hall, adjacent t

County: Gwynedd

Community: Dyffryn Ardudwy

Community: Dyffryn Ardudwy

Locality: Llanddwywe

Built-Up Area: Tal-y-bont

Traditional County: Merionethshire

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History

Possibly late C17 or early C18, part of the ambitious programme of development and remodelling of the house and grounds under the direction of Richard Vaughan, who inherited the estate in 1797 and was responsible for creating the main driveway up to the house and grounds. The walling is slightly different in construction to those at the immediate grounds by the Hall itself and may be later C18 or C19, contemporary with the adjacent lodges; and the globe finials appear to have been added at a later date.

Exterior

The main entrance has double gates of alternate tall and short vertical rails with shaped finials and horizontal rails to lower stile. The flanking gatepiers are square in plan, constructed of dressed, coursed stone with advanced capping and surmounted by globe finials. Curved walling extending towards the road are terminated by identical piers and the low walling is of mortared rubble masonry with raking coping and surmounted by railings with arrowhead finials. Flanking the driveway to the rear (ENE) of the main entrance are stretches of low rubble walling with roughly embattled coping (the garden walls of the flanking lodges). At the terminals of the walls are square gatepiers of roughly coursed rubble masonry with stepped rough slab coping and surmounted by globe finials.

Reasons for Listing

Included as gates, gatepiers and walling that forms the main entrance to the Cors y Gedol Estate.

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    Within a churchyard to the W side of the A496 in the small hamlet of Llanddwywe.
  • II Llanddwywe Farm
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  • II Lofted stables and cartshed range at Llanddwywe Farm
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  • II Ty Llwyd
    Attached to Glanywern, and together forming a short row on the west side of Y Brif Heol, in the centre of the village of Dyffryn Ardudwy, just S of the junction with Fford Isaf.
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    Attached to Ty Llwyd, and together forming a short row on the west side of Y Brif Heol, in the centre of the village of Dyffryn Ardudwy, just S of the junction with Fford Isaf.
  • II Tal-y-bont Mill
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  • II Mill House
    Set back from the SW side of Ffordd Ysgethin (A496) in the centre of the village of Tal-y-bont and along the NE bank of the Afon Ysgethin. The mill house lies directly SSE of the adjacent millhouse.
  • II Milepost
    Set alongside the W side of Y Brif Heol (A496) in the centre of the village of Dyffryn Ardudwy; just to N of the junction with Ffordd Isaf.

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