Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Front gates and railings to The Cottage
Graig, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 22 August 2003
- Locality
- Lower Machen
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Graig
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58537, -3.11578
- Cadw reference
- 81795
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
On the E side of the road N through Lower Machen village, some 100m S of the Church of Saint Michael.
History
Front railings with gates and piers to pair of estate cottages of c. 1860-70 built for Machen House estate, owned from 1831 by the Rev C.A.S. Morgan.
Exterior
Two sets of gatepiers of yellow brick and stone with yellow brick cornices with shallow pyramidal caps, iron overthrow to left gates only. Cast-iron double gates with acorn finials to outer uprights. Low retaining wall between gates with stone coping and iron railings with spearheads and large fleur-de-ly finials to standards.
Reason for designation
Included as set of C19 railings and cast-iron gates, of group value with The Cottage.
Nearby in the register
- The CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Corner HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trough and surround in wall to The CourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Railings and gate to Parkfield HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.