Black Gates & Screens at Entrance to the Tower, Nercwys, Flintshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1516 / 53°9'5"N

Longitude: -3.1342 / 3°8'3"W

OS Eastings: 324246

OS Northings: 362205

OS Grid: SJ242622

Mapcode National: GBR 70.5F4T

Mapcode Global: WH77C.T1QR

Plus Code: 9C5R5V28+J8

Entry Name: Black Gates & Screens at Entrance to the Tower

Listing Date: 22 October 1952

Last Amended: 12 December 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 574

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300000574

Location: Located on the W side of the main Mold-Nercwys road, slightly set back and at right angles with it.

County: Flintshire

Community: Nercwys

Traditional County: Flintshire

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History

The Black gates were made c.1726 for George Wynne Esq. and originally graced the main carriage drive to the contemporary (new) Leeswood Hall. Long attributed to the Davies brothers, the gates are now ascribed by some to Robert Bakewell. They are contemporary with, and by the same hand as the White Gates at Leeswood, a large vista screen opposite the house and still in situ. Moved already in the early C19, the Black Gates were again relocated to their present position in recent times

Exterior

Wrought iron decorative gates with complex overthrow, flat, 2-dimensional piers and 2 bays of lower flanking screen-work. The piers are of openwork with scrolls, arrow and bell motifs, arches and shells. Arched tops with urn-finials. The gates are segmentally arched and the overthrow is highly decorative with foliate forms, shell-motifs, scrolls and a central roundel with an intertwined GW cypher. Surmounting the overthrow is a gilded lion-crest. Similar 2- part flanking screen sections with dividing and end pilasters and open foliate and geometric finials. The gates and flanking sections have 2 tiers of fleurs-de-lis ornament, at ground and dado height.

Reasons for Listing

These gates are acknowledged to be amongst the finest of their type and date in the region.

External Links

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I The Tower
Situated in its own park off the main N-S road from Mold by-passing the village.
II Dovecot at the Tower
Located 150m to the W of The Tower in a field.
II Pentrehobyn Lodge
Located at the NE edge of the Community Council area, on the street- line on the E side of the Mold-Wrexham road.
II Inner Boundary Wall at Pentrehobyn including attached gate piers on main drive
Bordering the main garden and including the gated entrance from the main drive to the forecourt of the house.
I Pentrehobyn
Set in own grounds south-east of Mold and reached along short drive.
I Llettau at Pentrehobyn
Linked to the east side of Pentrehobyn House by a short screen wall.
II Barn to NE of Pentrehobyn
Situated on sloping site to north-east of Pentrehobyn house and closing one side of the former walled garden.
II Stables and attached Walled Garden to NE of Pentrehobyn
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Black Gates & Screens at Entrance to the Tower

A Grade II* Listed Building in Nercwys, Flintshire