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
17260
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/09/1996
Date of Amendment
31/03/2004
Name of Property
Terrace wall and steps at foot of lawn to SW of Trawsgoed House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Trawsgoed
Town
Locality
Trawsgoed
Easting
266998
Northing
273009
Street Side
E
Location
Situated at end of formal lawn, giving access to more informal lower SW garden.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terrace wall and steps part of the later C19 garden extension for the 6th Earl of Lisburne, not shown on 1886 OS, but for which a sketch plan of 1889, probably by the agent R Gardiner, exists. Described as newly made in 1891.
Exterior
Central flight of 11 broad stone steps on axis with garden front of house, flanked by arcaded balustrading, with arcaded parapets each side to the rubble stone terrace, these parapets returned each end. Corniced piers at each end or junction: the pair at the head of the steps are surmounted by griffins with shields, and those at the end of the parapet had dragons, one missing, while those at foot of the steps and ends of the short returns on terrace have ball finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the mansion and as part of a later C19 formal garden layout.
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