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
7160
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/06/1978
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Boundary wall running north from Porth Mawr Gate-house to Pen-y-dre Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Crickhowell
Town
Locality
Easting
321762
Northing
218606
Street Side
Location
Enclosing the Herbert family castellated mansion, Cwrt-y-Crw, but now forming a garden wall to Porth Mawr House, some modern houses and Pen-y-Dre Lodge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C15 origins but now an almost completely C19 Romantic reconstruction.
Exterior
Crenellated parapet at varying levels stepping down beyond gateway and curving around to NW opposite Rectory Road. Plain cappings, feathered aprons to crenels, plinth. At NW end the battlemented parapet ceases and the wall slopes down to Pen-y-Dre Lodge. Boarded door openings, including the former Postern Gate to right of Gatehouse.
Just inside the wall to S end stands the Italian stone pine tree, said to be one of the finest in the country. Subterranean vault behind the wall to the N end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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