Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penrice Castle South-East Gates and Piers (Also in Ilston Community)
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
- 51.57037, -4.16251
- Cadw reference
- 22542
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)
- 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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the south east entrance to Penrice Castle park, reached by a private lane from the road crossing Oxwich Marsh.
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 to Penrice Castle park. The gateway consists of two sandstone piers carrying the gates. The piers are square, about 3.5m apart, heavily rusticated and vermiculated. Tall plinth with base moulding. Small cornice. The finials are stone elongated globes on thin hollow stems, each with a thin vermiculated mid-height band. The globes and cornices have been restored. The gates are plain, in wrought iron, with dog railings.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Penrice Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Penrice Castle South-East Gates and Piers (Also in Penrice Community)Domesticunder 1 mi
- The OrangeryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Cottage in grounds of Underhill CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outlying tower designed to complement Penrice TowersDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.