Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gates and Railings at Blaenwern
Llanarth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Blaenwern, Llanarth, Ceredigion, designated on 16 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 February 1996
- Locality
- Blaenwern
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.18376, -4.30717
- Cadw reference
- 17726
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 100m N of Blaenwern, opening onto minor lane to Llanarth.
History
Mid C19 formal entrance gates and railings to Blaenwern. not marked on 1840 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Squared tooled sandstone gatepiers with quadrant curved low coped walls and railings each side and similar but smaller end piers. Piers have plinths, flat caps, pyramid blocks above and ball finials. Double iron gates with top rail ramped down to urn-topped meeting stiles, ornate spearheads, scrolled mid-rail with spearheads over and dog-bars below. Curving walls have stone coping and simple low iron rails.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Blaenwern.
Nearby in the register
- BlaenwernDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone S of PenrhiwlasTransportunder 1 mi
- Milestone outside SchoolTransportunder 1 mi
- Fronwen UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.