Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Outer Gateway , Walls, and Outbuilding at Stable Courtyard to Stanage Park
Knighton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Locality
- Stanage
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.33916, -2.98094
- Cadw reference
- 9047
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the top of the north drive immediately to east of the fishpond.
History
Dated 1807.
Exterior
Picturesque castle style. Coursed rubble Tudor arched gateway with flanking battlemented towers, cylindrical to north and square to south; two stair lights to cylindrical tower. Crow-stepped battlements to centre above chamfered arch with voussoirs; shield (possibly reset) reads:- "CR MDCCCVII".
Attached screen walls lead off in five directions: to west, coursed rubble wall to gateway with framing piers; to east, with stepped parapet adjoining south end of main house plus a small ER VII letter box set into wall; plain rubble screen wall north; small screen wall to south-east and another higher to south-west adjoining.
2-storey coursed rubble slate-roofed outbuilding with outer crow stepped gable and plain gable behind. Further single-storey rubble outbuilding adjoins stable courtyard north side.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Inner Gateway and Screen Walls to Stable Courtyard at Stanage ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Courtyard at Stanage ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stanage ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Game Larder to SW of Stable Courtyard at Stanage ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.