Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Terrace walls and steps at Coomb Cheshire Home
Llangynog, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangynog, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 17 October 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 October 2001
- Locality
- Llangynog
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llangynog
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80070, -4.41538
- Cadw reference
- 25802
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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on N and E sides of the entrance court at Coomb.
History
Terrace walls and steps up to former gardens, c1922 and probably by E.V. Collier of Carmarthen, for Lord Kylsant. Designed in a C17 style that perhaps is intended to echo the C17 style interiors created in the house in 1920-1. E.V. Collier's surviving plans do not include this work, but his entry in a directory of 1923 includes 'additions, gardens, garages, etc' 1921-2.
Exterior
Terrace walls, balustrades, piers and steps. Squared rock-faced rubble stone retaining walls, high wall to N and stepped wall following slope to E. Ornate Jacobean style pierced balustrades in an artificial material, possibly cast stone, 5 panels to N divided by short brick piers, 9 sections to E, stepped down. Between the two are fine stone steps to a quarter circle plan, 14 steps up to a circular top step between two tall brick piers with stone cornice and urn. The top circular step has inset herringbone brickwork and beyond a further 8 steps ascend, but concave-curved in contrast to those below. .
There is an arch-headed door in the extreme left end of the N retaining wall, between it and the service wing of the house.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-crafted setting for the main house, unusual in the neo-Jacobean strapwork balustrades.
Nearby in the register
- Coomb Cheshire HomeInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Castle CoganEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Church of St CynogReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- War Memorial CrossCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.