Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate Piers to Service Court and Attached Walls 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
- 51.48974, -3.60170
- Cadw reference
- 21234
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 service court and continuing on N and W sides of service block.
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. In 1806 Henry Wood was engaged as architect and conceived a new house with attached offices and a stable, drawings for which were much modified by Nicholl. The wall of the service court was added in the later C19 after the servant's wing which it encloses was built in the 1850s.
Exterior
Gate piers to the service court are of ashlar with 2-tier pyramidal caps. On the R (W) side of the piers is a 6-bay wall of tooled snecked stone with 2-tier ramped coping and shallow buttresses, which has narrow fixed windows lighting a covered passage at the rear of the service wing. The wall returns to S on the W side of the service wing with coursed masonry, 2 further windows, and terminates in a square pier. On the L (E) side the gate piers the wall has a single shallow buttress, then continues as rear wall of a vehicle shed and workshop (see item 11388).
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Merthyr Mawr House and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Vehicle store and workshops at Merthyr Mawr HouseTransportunder 1 mi
- Stable block at Merthyr Mawr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Merthyr Mawr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- South Terrace and Revetment at Merthyr Mawr HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.