Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate and Gate Posts on E side of Home Farm
Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, designated on 29 January 1999.
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
- 51.48739, -3.60743
- Cadw reference
- 21252
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 300m NE of the parish church and at the end of a track between Merthyr Mawr House and Brewhouse Cottages, on the E side of the Home Farm.
History
An early C19 gate 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
'Telford' style iron 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
- Barn and Stable at Home Farm (also known as Chapel Barn)Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Home FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Malthouse at Home FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dovecote at Home FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.