Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate to Plas Cefn Gwyn
Ceulanamaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 September 1997
- Locality
- Bontgoch/Elerch
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Ceulanamaesmawr
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.46360, -3.94322
- Cadw reference
- 18879
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 some 150m down drive to Plas Cefn Gwyn, on W side of road some 500m ENE of Bontgoch.
History
Early C19 iron gate and monolith piers to Plas Cefn Gwyn, built c1818 for W C Gilbertson.
Exterior
Wrought iron single gate across drive, with dog-bars, double mid-rail, upper part with diagonally crossed strengthening bars and flat top rail with scrolled spearheads. Mid rail has band of circles, and scrolled spearheads above. Scrolled tops to outer uprights. Gateposts are stone monoliths with rounded tops.
Reason for designation
A good example of Georgian blacksmiths' work. Group value with Plas Cefn Gwyn.
Nearby in the register
- Plas Cefn GwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Church SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- The Old VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St PeterReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.