Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Terrace, Walls and Balustrades S of Ffynone
Manordeifi, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1994
- Community
- Manordeifi
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01778, -4.56276
- Cadw reference
- 15123
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 immediately below S front of the house.
History
1902-7 by F Inigo Thomas for J V Colby, part of the Edwardian remodelling of Ffynone, intended as the uppermost of three terraces.
Exterior
Long paved terrace with rubble stone curved-walled end features. Slate front balustrade in seven bays, the centre broken forward, moulded plinth and rail, turned balusters. Urn and steps down to garden each end. W exedra has curving high coped rubble wall between massive moulded slate rusticated piers carrying very fine large ashlar urns on corniced pedestals. Coped rubble wall ramped down to S and rubble coped terrace wall returning E to W end of house. E exedra has similar coped rubble curved wall, two similar flanking piers with urns, one built into corner of service range, but enfolds a formal pool with square stepping stones across to curved slate steps leading to archway through to a terrace beyond. The arch head rises above wall with slate cut voussoirs and curved coping. Terrace paving is of diagonally-laid squares with slate edging.
The E arch aligns with the decoratively treated W end of a service range, roughcast with massive Cilgerran stone rustication to an arched recess.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as one of the best Edwardian architectural garden features in Wales.
Nearby in the register
- FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sundial on W Lawn at FfynoneGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Terrace Wall and Balustrade to W Garden at FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable and Kitchen CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.