Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden gatepiers, gates and wall at Ty-Brith
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1974
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70316, -2.90187
- Cadw reference
- 2200
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
At the SW corner of the property, set at an angle to and set back from the road, forming the entrance to the drive and adjoining the churchyard.
History
C19.
Exterior
Gothic gate piers and gates. Of cast iron, painted. Tall octagonal piers with Gothic arched panels surmounted by quatrefoils, cornice and shallow pyradmidal caps; deep plinths. Wide double gates with two tiers of intersecting arched railings, decorative middle rail with quatrefoils reinforced by spikes; heavy foliage finials to the stanchions; small sections of railing extend either side of posts to abut walls. The high rubble garden wall with narrow slab coping links the gateway with the side of the house and fronts Priory Street, curved and swept with brick coping at angle.
Reason for designation
Listed as important elements in the setting of the house. Group value with the Ty Brith complex, the Priory complex and other listed buildings in Priory Street and Twyn Square.
Nearby in the register
- Ty Brith CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.10 Priory Street, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Brith, and attached courtyard wallDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Priory StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.