Sluice, two sluice houses and linking footbridge adjacent to Children's Mill, Llandwrog, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0728 / 53°4'22"N

Longitude: -4.3063 / 4°18'22"W

OS Eastings: 245587

OS Northings: 355329

OS Grid: SH455553

Mapcode National: GBR 5G.BJDB

Mapcode Global: WH43S.T1K4

Plus Code: 9C5Q3MFV+4F

Entry Name: Sluice, two sluice houses and linking footbridge adjacent to Children's Mill

Listing Date: 8 September 1998

Last Amended: 30 September 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20441

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020441

Location: Situated immediately behind the stable courtyard on the Afon Llifon.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llandwrog

Locality: Glynllifon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: House Footbridge

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History

Probably part of the 3rd Lord Newborough’s additions in the mid C19, perhaps associated with the adjacent Children’s Mill.

Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury. Influence for some of the garden features came from the family’s grand tours.

Exterior

Either side of the stone sluice are two square brick built buildings faced in a mixture of dressed stone and glazed terracotta. Stepped flat roof with seated lion on top. Both are now overgrown; that to south is linked to the Children's Mill by a short brick wall. Inside are paddles for regulating the water flow into the leat leading to the Mill. The sluice house to north, by stables, has a cast-iron lamp standard inscribed John Evans 1920.

Linking the two sluice houses is a gated iron footbridge, now in poor condition with some of the deck and decorative parapets missing.

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value with the Children’s Mill and for its context as part of this exceptionally well-preserved C19 estate.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Children's Mill or Boat House
Set into the river bank to south-west of Glynllifon House, beside the weir on the Afon Llifon immediately south of the Stable courtyard.
II* Stable Courtyard at Glynllifon
Situated to the west of the house.
II Fountain Pool to east of Stable Courtyard
Situated on the east side of the forecourt to the stable block.
II Rubble-walled rear service drive to west of Glynllifon House
To west of the house, these high rubble walls border the rear service drive.
II Fountain near south-west corner of Glynllifon House
Situated close to the south-west corner of the house, concealed by a bush.
II Bridge over Afon Llifon to south of Glynllifon House
Situated immediately to south of Glynllifon House, a pair to the bridge a short way upstream carrying the circular drive over the Afon Llifon.
II Footbridge over service drive to west of Glynllifon House
Spanning the rear service drive to west of the house.
II Rubble-walled trackway to north of service drive to west of Glynllifon House
Situated uphill from and parallel to the rear service drive which is also rubble walled; leads from the kitchen gardens and Palm House to service accommodation on west side of the kitchen court.

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Sluice, two sluice houses and linking footbridge adjacent to Children's Mill

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandwrog, Gwynedd