Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateway and gate to W boundary at Talygarn
Pont-y-Clun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Talygarn
- Community
- Pont-y-Clun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51160, -3.40194
- Cadw reference
- 23932
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
Approximately 400m W of the house, set back from Cowbridge Road and on the N side of Plas-y-Coed.
History
Erected in the last quarter of the C19. Talygarn was purchased by G T Clark, the prominent industrialist and antiquary, in 1865. The present house retains the core of an earlier house and was built mainly 1879-82 with further important additions in 1892-4 and the early C20. The gardens and park were laid out from 1877 with formal gardens to the S, W and N of the house, and with informal woodland grounds centred on a lake to the S of the house. Talygarn was sold in 1922 by the grandson of G T Clark and the gateway became separate from the remainder of the house and gardens as part of the garden of Plas-y-Coed.
Exterior
A freestone gateway, set back from the road, has a round-headed arch with stressed jambs and voussoirs, panelled spandrels, and a moulded saddleback coping crowned by 3 ball finials. The single round-headed iron gate, with scrollwork to the lock rail, is set within a similar ironwork frame. Snecked stone flanking walls curve outwards and downwards with freestone coping and terminate in square rock-faced piers with moulded caps.
Reason for designation
Listed mainly for group value with Talygarn and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Medieval Chapel of TalygarnChapelunder 1 mi
- Church of St AnnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bench on W side of sunken garden at TalygarnGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Bench on N side of sunken garden at TalygarnGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.