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
22540
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/10/1999  
Date of Amendment
29/10/1999  
Name of Property
Penrice Castle North-West Gates, Railings and Piers  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Penrice  
Town
 
Locality
Penrice  
Easting
249507  
Northing
188933  
Street Side
 
Location
At the entrance to Penrice Castle park, opposite Home Farm.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Penrice Castle was built in 1773-7, with William Gubbings as mason. In 1790 and 1793 Gubbings was paid for gatepiers; probably the gates, railings and piers of all four entrances to the park were added in the early 1790s.  

Exterior
A formal gateway in the boundary wall of Penrice Castle park, set diagonally across the corner between two roads. The gateway consists of two main sandstone piers carrying the gates and two outer oolitic limestone piers of smaller size linked by fixed railings. The wall each side is of rubble sandstone, 2m high. There is a stile to the right. The main piers are square, about 3.5m apart, heavily rusticated and vermiculated. Tall plinth with base moulding. Small cornice with fine vertical fluting. The finials are stone globes on thin hollow stems, each with a bold vermiculated square mid-height block. The globes and cornices have been restored. The outer piers are in plain ashlar on small plinths. Each has a simple slab coping and a finial of poppy seedpod form. The gates and the side railings are plain, in wrought iron, with dog railings.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Penrice Castle (mansion).  

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