Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1967
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/01/1956
Date of Amendment
15/03/2000
Name of Property
Gateway and railings to Clytha Park
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanarth
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Clytha
Easting
336331
Northing
208850
Street Side
Location
Situated at main entry to Clytha Park on old A40 opposite junction with road to Bettws Newydd.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Decorative Gothic entrance gate screen with gates, to Clytha Park. Built 1790 for William Jones of Clytha House to designs by John Nash. The outer walls and railings are probably C19, not shown in the 1801 engraving of the screen. The folly at Clytha Castle long thought to be also by Nash is now known to be by John Davenport.
Exterior
Entrance screen and gates, with later railings each side. Bath stone ashlar Gothic style tripartite gateway, carriage arch flanked by pedestrian arches. Double iron gates to centre, single each side, all with ramped top rails, mid-rail with spearheads and dog-bars below.
Four ashlar piers with plain angle shafts and splayed plinths, cornice, carried over pedestrian gateway each side, and large crocketted finials with small square finials at angles. Over gateways is a running cresting of trefoils. Gateways have Tudor-arched heads with panelled spandrels. Over centre is tall moulded pointed arch with crocketting on outside carried up in ogee curve to top finial, the panel above the pointed arch cusped with 3-leaf ornament in relief.
Later wall and railing each side, ashlar low wall with iron rails and urn tops to stanchions. Serpentine curve, cross-gabled cap to ashlar pier each end with traceried panels to sides.
Interior
Reason for designation
Grade II* as a fine example of the late C18 picturesque Gothic style, part of the romantic setting created by William Jones which included the Clytha Castle folly.
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