Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penrice Castle North-West Gates, Railings and Piers
Penrice, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penrice, Swansea, designated on 29 October 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1999
- Locality
- Penrice
- Community
- Penrice
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57911, -4.17330
- Cadw reference
- 22540
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 246 Worms Head (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the entrance to Penrice Castle park, opposite Home Farm.
History
Penrice Castle was built in 1773-7, with William Gubbings as mason. In 1790 and 1793 Gubbings was paid for gatepiers; probably the gates, railings and piers of all four entrances to the park were added in the early 1790s.
Exterior
A formal gateway in the boundary wall of Penrice Castle park, set diagonally across the corner between two roads. The gateway consists of two main sandstone piers carrying the gates and two outer oolitic limestone piers of smaller size linked by fixed railings. The wall each side is of rubble sandstone, 2m high. There is a stile to the right. The main piers are square, about 3.5m apart, heavily rusticated and vermiculated. Tall plinth with base moulding. Small cornice with fine vertical fluting. The finials are stone globes on thin hollow stems, each with a bold vermiculated square mid-height block. The globes and cornices have been restored. The outer piers are in plain ashlar on small plinths. Each has a simple slab coping and a finial of poppy seedpod form. The gates and the side railings are plain, in wrought iron, with dog railings.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Penrice Castle (mansion).
Nearby in the register
- Home Farm GranaryAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- North Range at Home Farm BarnsAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Home Farm BarnsAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Home Farm Cartshed and LoftAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.