Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Wall and Gate of Flanders Farmhouse
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 16 December 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 2004
- Locality
- Llantwit Major
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40494, -3.48705
- Cadw reference
- 83391
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)
- 1858 · 20. Bridgewater. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Along the street frontage of Flanders Farm.
History
Both the wall and the gateway are probably from the first half of the C19 , but the wall could be earlier than that.
Exterior
The wall is built of roughly coursed local limestone rubble with a coping course. Square ashlar gatepiers with moulded caps. Wrought iron double gates with swept heads, arrowheaded finials, the finials above top rails also with scrolls. Wall returning on right hand to little outbuilding immediately in front of north-east end of house.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Flanders Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Flanders FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Cottage with attached garden wallsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Flanders RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- To-hesg including attached garden wallsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.