Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate and Gate Posts at entrance to Home Farm
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Merthyr Mawr
- Community
- Merthyr Mawr
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48687, -3.60893
- Cadw reference
- 21251
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 W side of farm yard facing minor road between Merthyw Mawr and Whitney Farm. Home Farm is 200m NE of the parish church.
History
Home Farm was built early C19 by Sir John Nicholl, who had purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804. The gate was brought to Merthyr Mawr after being salvaged from one of Thomas Telford's road-building projects, probably the Bristol to Milford Haven mail route, where work was undertaken from 1824. The design was produced specifically for the toll gates on Telford's Holyhead Road c1815-30, and was subsequently used on his other road-building projects.
Exterior
A 'Telford' style gate painted white, with wrought-iron bars emanating from the hinges in a sunburst fashion. The round cast iron posts have ball finials.
Reason for designation
Included as a farm gate of distinctive design and for group value with Home Farm and its listed farm buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Granary at Home FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cattle Shed at Home FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Malthouse at Home FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Home FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.