History

C18 to C19 garden wall to large Georgian house, formerly The Lions, dated 1775 but probably of earlier origins. The wall includes large blocks of green stone and red sandstone quoins that may be reused from the castle. Wall and outbuilding are marked on 1839 Tithe map.

Exterior

Garden wall of rubble stone, some blocks of hard green stone, some of red sandstone. W wall along Bishops Castle Street is high with stone coping. Straight joint to outbuilding at right end. Outbuilding has imitation slates to roof, rubble stone N gable, and W side-wall to street with rubble stone base and weatherboard above. One C20 metal small-paned cross-window to left. S gable end to Lions Bank is of stone apart from boarded gable. Cambered headed 9-pane window with blue brick head to ground floor right and boarded loft door above with blue brick sill. E wall is of red brick with oak wall plate, cambered-headed stable door to left. Single-storey garage at right angles to right with double sliding timber doors and slate roof. Garden wall is rebated behind outbuilding and garage to return to corner with good squared red sandstone and green stone quoins, perhaps reused, from which wall runs up Lions Bank to a pair of C18 tall square gate piers, of stone with brick quoins and flat stone caps. To right, wall continues, of rougher build to corner opposite Clawdd-y-dre from where it returns N, incorporating a gateway, as far as the opening to the modern Rectory.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its townscape importance, the wall built with large and possibly re-used blocks of stone, and the whole forming an important part of the setting of Plas Gwyn.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29486872

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)