Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at Insole Court
Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 June 2003
- Locality
- Llandaff
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llandaff
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49218, -3.22588
- Cadw reference
- 81269
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
Part of the important group of estate buildings surrounding Insole Court.
History
Probably built in 1855 by W G & E Habershon for J H Insole, the local colliery and shipping owner. Likely to be contemporary with the first build of the house.
Exterior
Constructed of squared, coursed rock-faced Radyr sandstone with Bath limestone ashlar dressings. Two square piers with machicolated cornice and stepped caps, one with the family crest of griffin with shield, this is missing from the other. Curving walls on either side of the drive capped with ashlar coping form a bridge carrying the drive over a small ravine.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of the garden and estate buildings of a significant Victorian mansion with a chequered history.
Nearby in the register
- Wall on rear drive at Insole CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rock Arch at Insole CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden House at Insole CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Insole CourtInstitutionalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.