Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gateway at Faendre Hall
Trowbridge, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 July 2000
- Locality
- St Mellons
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Trowbridge
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53312, -3.09064
- Cadw reference
- 23534
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
Fronting the lane and adjacent to the lodge, forming the entrance to a curved drive to the house.
History
Probably contemporary with house of 1850.
Exterior
Gateway comprises two slender piers of large ashlar blocks with steeply pitched gabled stone-tiled tops. Attached are double wrought iron gates of unequal width with fleur de lys finials. A curved snecked rubble wall with flat coping extends either side.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral element of the park and for group value with other items at Faendre and especially the Lodge which adjoins.
Nearby in the register
- Lodge at Faendre HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Circular garden seat at Faendre HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Former Stable Block at Faendre HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Faendre HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.