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
21234
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1999
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Gate Piers to Service Court and Attached Walls at Merthyr Mawr House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Merthyr Mawr
Town
Locality
Merthyr Mawr House
Easting
288893
Northing
177972
Street Side
Location
On N side of service court and continuing on N and W sides of service block.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Sir John Nicholl purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and planned a new country residence away from the old manor house, Merthyr Mawr Hall (now the site of Home Farm). A new site was chosen below Chapel Hill which overlooks the Ogmore valley. In 1806 Henry Wood was engaged as architect and conceived a new house with attached offices and a stable, drawings for which were much modified by Nicholl. The wall of the service court was added in the later C19 after the servant's wing which it encloses was built in the 1850s.
Exterior
Gate piers to the service court are of ashlar with 2-tier pyramidal caps. On the R (W) side of the piers is a 6-bay wall of tooled snecked stone with 2-tier ramped coping and shallow buttresses, which has narrow fixed windows lighting a covered passage at the rear of the service wing. The wall returns to S on the W side of the service wing with coursed masonry, 2 further windows, and terminates in a square pier. On the L (E) side the gate piers the wall has a single shallow buttress, then continues as rear wall of a vehicle shed and workshop (see item 11388).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Merthyr Mawr House and other associated listed items.
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