Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatepiers at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa Castel
Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Park, Merthyr Tydfil, designated on 15 July 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 July 1974
- Community
- Park
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75424, -3.39121
- Cadw reference
- 11399
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
By the main A470 road (and formerly with twin castellated lodges within the park).
History
ca 1825. Probably designed by Robert Lugar (the demolished lodges matched the style of the house).
Exterior
Two fine sections of ironwork railings with ironwork gate piers flanking the driveway. Large urn finials surmount round gatepiers with hinges, attached cluster of smaller urn-topped uprights. Matching pair of ironwork gates. Spear railings sweep down with 7 bays to left and right divided by square groups of urn-finial uprights; spear dog-bars. Railings are attached at outer ends to square, castellated stone turrets with boundary walls beyond.
Gates restored (Spring 1987).
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items at Cyfarthfa Castle park and Pandy Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Railings at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Pandy FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Park Wall Flanking Railings at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Barn at Pandy FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.