Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Two sets of Gates, Gatepiers & Railings to Parc Howard
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 March 1992
- Community
- Llanelli
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68918, -4.15823
- Cadw reference
- 11909
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
Situated along south east boundary of park, from Bryncaerau Terrace to corner of Parc Howard Avenue.
Exterior
1912 iron railings on stone plinth with 2 sets of gates between ashlar gatepiers. Gates are wooden with ramped top rails, panelled lower sections and open upper section infilled with fine cast-iron tracery. Main gates have double gates to carriageway and single pedestrian gate to left, subsidiary gates towards Parc Howard Avenue have double gates only.
Piers have rock-faced plinths, ashlar shafts broached inwards at neck to octagonal heavy caps with recessed carved shells over cardinal faces and subsidiary faces cut back to give a cross shape in plan. Piers are attractively lettered 'Parc Howard' and 'Opened to the Public Sept 21st 1912'. There are 3 piers to main gates, 2 to the other set.
Reason for designation
Group Value
Nearby in the register
- WestmeadDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parc Howard Mansion (Museum & Art Gallery)Recreationalunder 1 mi
- Bandstand in grounds of Parc HowardGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Sir Arthur Stepney Memorial in Old Road CemeteryCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.