Gateway to former Walled Garden at Y Glyn, Bangor, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2213 / 53°13'16"N

Longitude: -4.1544 / 4°9'15"W

OS Eastings: 256262

OS Northings: 371531

OS Grid: SH562715

Mapcode National: GBR 5N.15B6

Mapcode Global: WH547.49Z9

Plus Code: 9C5Q6RCW+G7

Entry Name: Gateway to former Walled Garden at Y Glyn

Listing Date: 2 August 1988

Last Amended: 2 August 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4062

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300004062

Location: To NE of Y Glyn beside the former stable-yard and outbuilding range. Set into the former garden wall.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Bangor

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Walled garden

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History

Probably mid C19 and dating from the period when the estate, then known as Gorphwysfa, was owned by the Chester to Holyhead Railway Company (1846-61).

Exterior

Possibly re-using earlier wrought ironwork. Rectangular panels to the gates with elaborately scrolled detail; lock bar and dog bar and similar detailed deep tympanum.

Bull nosed rubble voussoirs with keystone to segmental arched over; chambered coping. Coursed rubble gate piers with capstones surmounted by stone lions.

Partially overgrown (June 1988).

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value with Y Glyn.

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Gateway to former Walled Garden at Y Glyn

A Grade II Listed Building in Bangor, Gwynedd