Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boundary wall running north from Porth Mawr Gate-house to Pen-y-dre Lodge
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 June 1978
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86053, -3.13752
- Cadw reference
- 7160
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
Enclosing the Herbert family castellated mansion, Cwrt-y-Crw, but now forming a garden wall to Porth Mawr House, some modern houses and Pen-y-Dre Lodge.
History
C15 origins but now an almost completely C19 Romantic reconstruction.
Exterior
Crenellated parapet at varying levels stepping down beyond gateway and curving around to NW opposite Rectory Road. Plain cappings, feathered aprons to crenels, plinth. At NW end the battlemented parapet ceases and the wall slopes down to Pen-y-Dre Lodge. Boarded door openings, including the former Postern Gate to right of Gatehouse.
Just inside the wall to S end stands the Italian stone pine tree, said to be one of the finest in the country. Subterranean vault behind the wall to the N end.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Porth-Mawr GatehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Porth MawrGatehouseunder 1 mi
- Porth Mawr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- AshfieldDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.