Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gateway at Faendre Hall
Trowbridge, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Mellons, Cardiff, Trowbridge, designated on 20 July 2000.
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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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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1963 · Map No. 1 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
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.