Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
South Terrace and Revetment at Merthyr Mawr House
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Merthyr Mawr House
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48920, -3.60197
- Cadw reference
- 21230
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 the S side of the house.
History
Sir John Nicholl purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and planned a new country residence away from the old manor house, Merthyr Mawr Hall (now the site of Home Farm). A new site was chosen below Chapel Hill which overlooks the Ogmore valley. Merthyr Mawr House was built in the period 1806-9 and the park and gardens laid out later, with a garden on the S and W of the house, a kitchen garden to the E and wooded pleasure grounds to the N on Chapel Hill and to the SW. The terrace revetments on the S side of the house were added in the early C20, replacing grass terraces which were still in existence in 1899.
Exterior
A long wall of rubble sandstone with short return walls at the ends, with square stone piers at the angles and flanking central stone steps. The wall has a flat stone coping and the piers have concrete vases. The terrace is paved with concrete.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Merthyr Mawr House and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Lower Revetment and steps at Merthyr Mawr HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Merthyr Mawr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers to Service Court and Attached Walls at Merthyr Mawr HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Vehicle store and workshops at Merthyr Mawr HouseTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.