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Dipping Pool and Steps at Gliffaes
Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 21 October 1998
- Locality
- Gliffaes
- Community
- Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87174, -3.20594
- Cadw reference
- 20631
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
On N side of courtyard outside main entrance to Gliffaes.
History
Gliffaes is said to have been built c1881 for Rev. W. West, the architects being Brown & Gill of Bath. West's father, William H. West, had laid out the gardens c1845 and lived in an earlier house to N, which became a stable when the new house was built. Gliffaes was sold in 1903 to Sir Shirley Salt, who added a porte cochere to the entrance. The house became a hotel c1936. The ornamental dipping pool is an integral part of the 1880s set piece.
Exterior
Ornamental dipping pool of coursed rubble sandstone with tooled dressings. On the S side facing the house is a semi-circular pool of dressed stone with a V-shaped spout. The spout is inside a round-headed recess with hammer-dressed voussoirs and projecting keystone, all beneath a shaped gable with projecting coping stones. To L and R of pool are stone steps to lower level. On the N side is a simpler rectangular pool at a lower level fed from a stone spout.
Reason for designation
A well-detailed garden feature making an important contribution to the setting of Gliffaes.
Nearby in the register
- GliffaesDomesticunder 1 mi
- South Terrace at GliffaesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gazebo including attached kitchen garden walls at GliffaesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gliffaes LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.