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Terrace wall and steps at foot of lawn to SW of Trawsgoed House
Trawsgoed, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 September 1996
- Locality
- Trawsgoed
- Community
- Trawsgoed
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.33899, -3.95362
- Cadw reference
- 17260
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at end of formal lawn, giving access to more informal lower SW garden.
History
Terrace wall and steps part of the later C19 garden extension for the 6th Earl of Lisburne, not shown on 1886 OS, but for which a sketch plan of 1889, probably by the agent R Gardiner, exists. Described as newly made in 1891.
Exterior
Central flight of 11 broad stone steps on axis with garden front of house, flanked by arcaded balustrading, with arcaded parapets each side to the rubble stone terrace, these parapets returned each end. Corniced piers at each end or junction: the pair at the head of the steps are surmounted by griffins with shields, and those at the end of the parapet had dragons, one missing, while those at foot of the steps and ends of the short returns on terrace have ball finials.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the mansion and as part of a later C19 formal garden layout.
Nearby in the register
- Ornamental fountain and basin at Trawsgoed HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Trawsgoed HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old DairyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden seat at foot of avenue to SW of back lawn at Trawsgoed HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.