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
20720
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/10/1998
Date of Amendment
21/10/1998
Name of Property
Garden Terrace Wall to N of the site of the house
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llangattock
Town
Locality
Glanusk Park
Easting
319540
Northing
219463
Street Side
Location
The gardens are located N of the site of Glanusk House and slope down sharply towards the River Usk. The terrace is formed by a walled revetment and includes the site of the former house; adjoins the separately listed Garden Boundary Wall.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Glanusk Park was created in 1825 by the ironmaster Sir Joseph Bailey (1783-1858), nephew of Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa Castle. The house, by Robert Lugar, was built between 1825 and1830 and was in Tudor Gothic style characterised by octagonal ogee turrets and pinnacles. It was demolished in 1952-54 following extensive damage caused in World War II. A new house was built by Louis Hurley in 1978.
The formal pleasure garden, to which this was the terrace wall, was laid out between 1842 and 1874 and designed by Markham Nesfield, son of the better known garden designer W A Nesfield. It is a rare example of his work.
Exterior
The former house stood on a wide platform site, from which steps led down to the N to terraces and finally, a parterre garden. The E side of the terrace is retained by a high revetment wall with parapet. It has N and E walls with returns to the S and W respectively. The revetment is of coursed grey rock-faced stone. The parapets are limestone panels pierced with quatrefoils in lozenges, separated by square piers. At the angles of the lozenges are foliate bosses, all different. Moulded copings and a string course with Tudor flower decoration. At the NE corner is a diagonal buttress, above which is a spout and gargoyle in the form of a bearded and bespectacled man. Along the E side is an arched recess, constructed to protect the roots of a nearby oak tree.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a surviving part of Markham Nesfield's mid C19 designed scheme at Glanusk Park and for group value with other listed garden structures.
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