Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate piers with flanking doorways and walls at entrance to Maes Manor
Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maes Manor, Blackwood, Caerphilly, designated on 31 May 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 31 May 2002
- Locality
- Maes Manor
- Town
- Blackwood
- Community
- Blackwood
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68253, -3.19224
- Cadw reference
- 26707
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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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side of the house set back from a minor road between Blackwood and Bedwellty.
History
Originally known as Maesruddud, Maes Manor was built in 1900 as an addition to an earlier house and extended in 1907 when the original house was demolished. The second phase was added for L. Brewer Williams by E.P. Warren, architect of London. Between 1907 and 1914 a number of ancillary buildings and garden structures, including the main entrance and its associated lodges (the latter dated 1912), were built by Warren in collaboration with Thomas Mawson, who designed the garden.
Exterior
Comprising a wide carriage entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances, of reconstituted stone. The main entrance has panelled square piers with ball finials. The gates are missing. The flanking pedestrian entrances have lower outer piers with moulded caps, round-headed doorways with keystones and studded doors with strap hinges. Convex outer walls of coursed rubble with saddleback copings curve out to the road and terminate with shallow square piers.
Reason for designation
Listed with North and South Lodges as an integral component of a small Edwardian country estate representing the early C20 prosperity of the mining industry in S Wales.
Nearby in the register
- South LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- North LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate piers and flanking walls to forecourt of Maes ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Kitchen garden walls, pavilion and terrace at Maes ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.