Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates and gate-piers at main entrance to Plas Llangattwg
Llangattock, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 21 October 1998
- Locality
- Llangattock
- Community
- Llangattock
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85425, -3.14407
- Cadw reference
- 20725
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
The gates are located at the main entrance to Plas Llangattwg. The entrance is on the W side of the road which leads into the village.
History
Probably mid C19. Thought to have been made in a forge at Glangrwyne on the N bank of the Usk, after 1830 by when the road is known to have been realigned from its original route which passed through the grounds of the house. Other pairs of similar gates are found in the locality. Plas Llangattwg, home of the Morgan family, dates from the Tudor period, it was largely rebuilt in the early C18 and substantially remodelled in the late C18.
Exterior
A pair of gates consisting of rows of wrought iron circles. The upper tier have open tops which are twisted. The ironwork is painted white. The gates are fixed to dressed stone piers with swept pyramidal copings. Masonry boundary walls extend from the piers.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine pair of C19 wrought iron gates in a distinctive style and having group value with Plas Llangattwg.
Nearby in the register
- 'Peach House' at Plas Llangattwg including attached former boiler-houseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Plas LlangattwgDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Plas Llangattwg including pigstiesAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Beech ViewDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.