Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Service Yard and Gateway of Middleton Hall
Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1999
- Locality
- Middleton
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llanarthney
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84311, -4.14709
- Cadw reference
- 21753
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
100m north of the Great Glass House of the National Botanic Gardens. Attached to the surviving service wing of Middleton Hall.
History
Middleton Hall was completed in 1795 for Sir William Paxton to the designs of S P Cockerell. To the north-west of the house was a service wing (now modernised and named Trawscoed) with this attached oval yard and gateway. With these exceptions the Hall was demolished in 1951.
Exterior
The yard, its gateway and the stable block are planned on one axis. The yard is an oval enclosure in roughly coursed stonework, about 2 metres in height, without its original coping. The yard gateway is an imposing design in the form of a round-headed gateway with a semicircular ashlar arch, with projecting keystone, large square impost moulding and string course and projecting plinth, all set within a section of wall raised to almost double height in coursed masonry with square coping.
Reason for designation
Listed as a structure planned integrally with the listed Stables, and a surviving unaltered fragment of the work of S P Cockerell.
Nearby in the register
- Stable Block of Middleton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rear stable block of Middleton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ice House of Middleton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- BrynhawddgarDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.