Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates and gate-piers to North Driveway to Cresselly House
Jeffreyston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 April 1995
- Locality
- Cresselly
- Community
- Jeffreyston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72595, -4.80330
- Cadw reference
- 15922
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
Slightly set back from the main road and adjoining the N lodge.
History
Contemporary with the 1860's enlargements to the house and estate improvements by Clarke and Holland of Newmarket for Lady Catherine Allen. Cresselly House was built c.1770 by John Bartlett Allen.
Exterior
Double set of square, ashlar, gate-piers on plinths with pyramidal caps (slightly lower to outer pair) and ball finials. The inner pair have shields with bronze dove and olive branch, crests of the Allen family of Cresselly. Double wrought-iron spear gates to driveway and similar fixed ironwork railings to outer openings. Quadrant rubble flanking walls with low pyramidal capped gate-piers to lodge.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a well-preserved Victorian scheme of estate improvements.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- North Lodge to Cresselly HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate and gate-piers opposite to main N driveway to Creselly HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cresselly HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate-piers and gate to S driveway to Cresselly HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.