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
26712
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/05/2002
Date of Amendment
31/05/2002
Name of Property
Garden Wall, Privy and Gatepiers of Oak Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Whitchurch
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Whitchurch
Easting
314234
Northing
179929
Street Side
Location
Built right around Oak Cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably early C19 and contemporary with the enlargement and improvement of Oak Cottage (qv.). It is said to have been lived in by an official of the adjacent Melingriffith Tinplate Works.
Exterior
Square brick gate piers with peaked capping and C19 iron gate at head of flight of steps leading down to rear entry. Outside wall and to the north-west of house, an iron post which was in use in connection with Melingriffith lock on the Glamorganshire Canal (closed 1942) which was immediately to the north-west of the house. A wall also encloses the garden to the south of the house. Colourwashed stone rubble walls with rough capping. This wall incorporates a privy and outhouse in the south-west corner. This has a roof of coorrugated steel sheeting.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Oak Cottage and as part of the historic whole.
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