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
15925
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/04/1995
Date of Amendment
08/04/1997
Name of Property
Gate and gate-piers beside E Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Jeffreyston
Town
Locality
Cresselly
Easting
207129
Northing
206287
Street Side
Location
Closing the former E driveway to Cresselly House. Facing Lanesend junction, on the by-road to Jeffreyston from the A4075 at Cresselly.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built after 1888, but consistent in design with the estale improvements by Clarke and Holland of Newmarket for Lady Catherine Allen. Cresselly House was built c. 1770 by John Bartlett Allen.
Exterior
This is the finest pair of gate-piers on the Cresselly Estate. Pair of square, ashlar, gate-piers with rock-faced rubble panels and crocket and rosette cornices. Block pedestals rise through pyramidal caps, polygonal bases to elaborate ball finials; panelled pedestals with Allen of Cresselly metal crests (now missing). Single, side-hung timber gate similar to that at opposite end of this driveway; ironwork bars and diagonal brace with scrolly ends and pierced timber panels to bottom. Flanking low quadrant walls.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a well-preserved Victorian scheme of estate improvements.
Group value.
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