Kinmel Hall

The Kinmel Park estate contains a considerable number of structures with historic listing designations. The two listed at the highest grade, Grade I, are: the hall, and the Llwyni (or Golden) Lodge. Structures listed at the next highest grade, Grade II*, include: the park itself; the entrance screen to the house; the coach house and stables and the Morfa Lodge at the northernmost entrance to the park. A range of buildings associated with Plas Kinmel, the home farm for the Kinmel Estate, are also listed at Grade II* including: Plas Kinmel; the north, west and east farm ranges attached to the Plas; and the piggery. 18 structures are listed Grade II. These include: features of the Venetian…

Hugh Robert Hughes' reconstruction of Kinmel was on the grand scale - the house has been described as "the Welsh Versailles". Edward Hubbard, writing in his Clwyd volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, reissued in 2003, saw closer similarities to Hampton Court Palace, a building Hughes is known to have visited with Nesfield in 1868.{{efn|When Edward Hubbard was writing his guide, first published in 1986 and revised in 1994, the house was in the ownership of Eddie Vince and a major programme of renovation was being undertaken. Hubbard's hopes that this would see the full restoration of the house were unfulfilled. The interior of the mansion was designed on a scale to match the…