Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gate to Carmarthen Park from Picton Terrace
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 28 November 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 28 November 2003
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85589, -4.31717
- Cadw reference
- 82156
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on N side of park, opposite No 11 Picton Terrace.
History
Pedestrian gate into Carmarthen Park, dated 1900.
Exterior
Pedestrian gate flanked by railings on dwarf stone walls between stone piers. Fairly simple wrought iron gates with plain uprights with finials and double horizontal bars at top and near bottom that continue at same level through flanking railings. Outer uprights of gate are scroll-topped and there are diagonal cross-braces with central roundel, and elegant catch. Inscription on attached plate: "This gate was presented by H.E. Richards Esq. of Picton Terrace, Carmarthen AD 1900." Gate posts are square-section and have urn finials. Short length of railings each side on dwarf limestone wall. Outer piers square in section, of grey dressed limestone with hipped cap stone.
Reason for designation
Included as pedestrian gate of 1900, part of a reletively complete urban park of C1900.
Nearby in the register
- Castle House, including railings and gatesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Clyd, including front railings and gatesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Corris, including front railings and gatesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 15 including gate and railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.