Garden Cottage

Cadw's description

Location

To the NW of the stable yard.

History

Gwysaney is a Jacobean mansion built in 1603, although the present group of outbuildings belong principally to the revival of the Gwysaney Estate in the C19 by the Davies-Cooke family. Garden Cottage is shown in its present form on the 1870 Ordnance Survey but was adapted from an earlier building shown on the 1839 Tithe map. The later work is similar to the 1860s service wing of the house and was probably undertaken at a similar date.

Exterior

Domestic Gothic one-and-a-half-storey 4-window cottage of snecked rubble with a slate roof and external stone gable stack R heightened in yellow brick and yellow-brick ridge stack L of centre. The stacks have corbelled caps and vertical ribs in a style characteristic of the Gwysaney Estate. The symmetrical front has a one-and-a-half-storey centrepiece with doorway flanked by windows in each storey, while wider outer bays have single lower-storey windows. The central doorway has a boarded door and ornate strap hinges, and an ashlar surround with hood mould that is carried over the immediately flanking windows. The 3-light mullioned windows all have hood moulds, including 2 half dormers, which also have crow-stepped gables. The L gable end has a 3-light attic window. A lower added parallel wing of snecked dressed stone and slate roof is set back against the L gable end, with door and window facing the front and window in the gable end, all replaced. The rear has a catslide roofed outshut on the R side.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reason for designation

Listed as a well-detailed and well-preserved estate cottage, and for group value with other associated listed items at Gwysaney.