Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateway at former entrance to Court Colman.
Newcastle Higher, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 November 1997
- Locality
- Pen-y-Fai
- Community
- Newcastle Higher
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52448, -3.59701
- Cadw reference
- 19056
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately SW of Pen-y-Fai church across the former entrance drive to Court Colman, attached to Church Lodge on N side and School Lodge on S side.
History
Built 1900-3 by R.W. Llewellyn and framing the entrance to Court Colman. Contemporary with the gates is the parish church and Church Lodge. The school and School Lodge on S side were built 1898-9.
Exterior
Cast iron gateway flanked by dwarf walls with railings. The main gateway is flanked by tall openwork piers with scrollwork, which are surmounted by gas lamps. The railings have spike finials with simple scrolls and are swept up to centre. An elaborate lock rail has a frieze of scrolls, with a frieze of scrolls incorporating fleur-de-lys finials above and below it. The dog rail has a similar motif. To R and L are similar railings swept up to the gate piers and on dwarf walls of coursed, rock-faced sandstone with Ham stone banding and coping, which are swept up to the attached lodges. The wall to R is broken by a wrought iron gate with details similar to the main gates.
Reason for designation
A fine example of decorative cast iron and an integral component of the fine group of buildings at the former entrance to Court Colman.
Nearby in the register
- School LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of All Saints, Pen-y-FaiReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The PheasantCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.