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
25791
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/09/2001
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Gateway and gates to Troy House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Monmouth
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Mitchel Troy
Easting
350900
Northing
211420
Street Side
Location
About 50m NW of Troy House, on the E side of the farm track leading to Troy House Farm.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably C18; altered.
Exterior
A pair of tall square gate piers of banded sandstone ashlar, with cornices and shallow pyramidal tops, furnished with a pair of full-height wrought-iron gates. These consist of 2 unequal tiers of enriched bar railings separated by a band of foliated scrollwork; the lower including slender dog-bars, and the top rail finished with exuberant scrolled cresting.
Attached to the outer side of each pier is a curved dwarf wall which appears to be of C19 character and carries plain bar railings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its elegant ornamental character, and group value with Troy House (q.v.).
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