Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ruperra Gates to NE of Tredegar House
Coedkernew, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tredegar House, Newport, Coedkernew, designated on 31 July 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 31 July 1996
- Locality
- Tredegar House
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Coedkernew
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.56203, -3.02789
- Cadw reference
- 17109
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located to the NE of Tredegar House, at the entrance of the main drive into the front courtyard.
History
Tredegar House was the seat of the Morgan family from the early C15 through to the mid C20. The surviving medieval house was incorporated into the South West wing of the much grander, classical house that was built between 1664 and 1672 by Sir William Morgan (d.1680). The railings and gates, possibly brought from Ruperra Castle, date from the early C19, possibly contemporary with the works to the new entrance on the NE front. After the Morgan family died out in 1951 the house and its grounds were used as a boarding school. Owned by Newport Borough Council since 1974 when it became open to the public along with its grounds.
Exterior
Pair of C19 brick gate piers with projecting heavily moulded entablature with dentils supporting carved stone beasts representing the griffin and lion rampant of the Morgan Family, each holding a scrolled armorial shield. Upswept, spearheaded wrought-iron railings with inset simple cast-iron piers which carry a pair of plain upswept wrought-iron gates with ogee and barley twist detail. Dwarf brick walls with Bathstone copings with similar railings flank the gates and enclose the NE courtyard.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II for group value with Tredegar House.
Nearby in the register
- Tredegar HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Edney Gates, inc flanking screen and attached walls with opposing gates to S end of Middle CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Laundry and Dairy to NE of Great BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Great BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.