Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Coach House, Gate Piers, Gated and Flanking Wall at Vaynor Park
Berriew, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Vaynor, Berriew, Powys, designated on 21 August 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 August 1995
- Locality
- Vaynor
- Community
- Berriew
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.59359, -3.21823
- Cadw reference
- 16402
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The coach house is at right-angles to the stable block, to which it is linked by the walls flanking the gates giving access to the service courtyard to the N of the house.
History
Built as part of Thomas Penson's remodelling work at Vaynor, between 1840 and 1853.
Exterior
Coach house is brick with slate roof: shaped gables with stone copings corbelled out at either end. 3 segmental archways with stone keystones in brick arched heads. Flanking walls are brick with stone copings: square section piers of banded brick and stone with pyramidal finials. Boarded gates with shallow arched profile.
Reason for designation
Part of an important group of buildings forming an ensemble at Vaynor Park.
Nearby in the register
- Stable Block at Vaynor ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Terraces at Vaynor ParkGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Vaynor ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen y ParcDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.