Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance Gateway to Plas-newydd
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2004
- Locality
- Usk
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Usk
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70501, -2.90542
- Cadw reference
- 82760
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
At entrance to grounds of Plas-newydd.
History
Probably contemporary with house circa 1835.
Exterior
Pair of square stone piers with stepped caps enclose iron gates with spear and arrow finials, horizontal panel with quatrefoils, lower panel with extra bars. To each side a convex stone wall supporting iron railings with arrow finials.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with Plas-newydd.
Nearby in the register
- Entrance gateway to Porth-y-carnNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Plas-newyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle Vale, and attached iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St Francis Xavier and St David LewisReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.