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Terrace walls and balustrades at Cwm Rhuddan
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 June 2004
- Locality
- Cwm Rhuddan
- Community
- Llandovery
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.98009, -3.80593
- Cadw reference
- 82903
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on S side of Cwm Rhuddan mansion.
History
Terrace walls with terracotta balustrade presumably of 1870 when the house was built. The balustrade runs along the S front and returns along the W front to terminate against the big added NW corner block
Exterior
Terrace walls and balustrades. Rubble stone retaining walls carrying yellow terracotta balustrade of neo-Jacobean keyed ovals with moulded coping. Long sections of balustrade between plain rendered piers with moulded terracotta caps, 3 sections to left and 5 to right of flight of ashlar steps up to front door. One section each side of steps. At end of right part is a little quarter-round link in angle to 2-bay section returning S at right angles. At end of left section a 3-bay section returns N along E garden front terminated at the NW corner block.
Reason for designation
Included as good example of Victorian terracotta garden ornament, of group value with the house at Cwm Rhuddan.
Nearby in the register
- Cwm RhuddanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St DingatReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sir Gardner Wilkinson tomb in churchyard of Church of St Dingat.Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Railings to grave enclosure against N wall of churchyard of Church of St DingatReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.