Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Wall and Arch at entrance to Ty-Cooke
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Goetre, Pontypool, Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, designated on 18 July 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 July 2001
- Locality
- Goetre
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74190, -3.00130
- Cadw reference
- 25568
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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the east side of Ty-Cooke Farmhouse stretching from the road to the house.
History
A garden wall which is probably early C17 in origin, but the entrance arch to the courtyard, though C17 in character, is probably rebuilt.
Exterior
The wall is constructed of carefully squared and snecked sandstone blocks. L-shaped wall enclosing the orchard of Ty-Cooke. It stretches about 25m along the road and about 50m up the entrance lane to Ty-Cooke having turned a right-angle at the former gatehouse. It then turns another right-angle and continues as a narrow gabled archway with a dovehouse in the gable. This arch gives access to the cobbled yard between the two listed houses at Ty-Cooke. The wall is about 3m high while the corner turret rises to about 4m. This is square and has beeen truncated. There is a blocked apparently C17 doorway with a dripmould over on the ground floor. Above this the wall has been rebuilt and capped off with coping stones. The interior face was not seen. This turret was possibly a gazebo from which the first floor has been removed.
Reason for designation
Included as an ancillary structure to an important early C18 farmhouse and as a part of an important farm group.
Nearby in the register
- Ty-Cooke FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Farmhouse about 20m to the north of Ty-Cooke FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge No. 73Transportunder 1 mi
- Bridge No. 72Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.