Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate piers to Tythegston Court
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1963
- Locality
- Tythegston
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50055, -3.64401
- Cadw reference
- 11222
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the SW side of the house, set back from the road behind a high wall.
History
The Tythegston Estate belonged to Turberville family from the C12, but the present house is principally the work of Henry Knight in the period 1765-71. The gate piers stood at the main entrance to Tythegston Court and probably belong to this period. In the mid C20 a new boundary wall was built at the front of the house which left the original gate piers now inside the garden.
Exterior
Stone gate piers (with attached stub walls of former boundary walls) with vermiculated rustication, above which is a key pattern frieze, swags in the wide faces and roundels in the narrow faces, and capped with sphinxes.
Reason for designation
Well-detailed Georgian gate piers and for group value with Tythegston Court.
Nearby in the register
- Mile markerTransportunder 1 mi
- Tythegston CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St TudwgReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tythegston Long BarrowLong Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.