Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Gate & Lodges to Gnoll House
Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 January 1989
- Community
- Neath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66084, -3.79934
- Cadw reference
- 11782
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
At the end of Gnoll Avenue at former entrance to Gnoll Park.
Exterior
Early C19 Gothic gate tower set back between octagonal lodges. Stonework laid to narrow courses, stressed quoins, plinth.
Central rectangular entrance tower. Crenellated parapet over continuous band. Pointed arched gateway, recessed inner arch. Modern iron gates.
Single storey octagonal lodges. Crenellations and bands as tower, slated octagonal roofs. Windows to front and rear. Slightly cambered stone voussoirs, returned labels, stone sills. Modern timber shutters. Blocked doorways formerly gave access to gate passage, stone voussoirs.
Nearby in the register
- Pillar BoxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- BandstandGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Neath LibraryCivilunder 1 mi
- Pedestal & Bronze Statue of Howell GwynCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.