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
81261
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/06/2003
Date of Amendment
30/06/2003
Name of Property
Entrance Gates, Gatepiers and Wall of Insole Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llandaff
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Llandaff
Easting
314948
Northing
177943
Street Side
Location
On the south side of the road opposite to Rookwood Hospital and.part of the important group of estate buildings surrounding Insole Court.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
1855, by W G & E Habershon for J H Insole. This is part of the original build of the house, then known as ''Ely Court'', now known as Insole Court.
Exterior
Pennant stone rubble with freestone dressings. Dwarf wall with ramped coping carries cast iron railings on either side of a concave entrance to the carriage drive. This is flanked by octagonal stone piers with pyramid caps. The gates are carried on smaller cast iron piers of similar type but the gates themselves are post WWII mild steel ones. The adjacent contempory lodge has been extensively altered and enlarged.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of the garden and estate buildings of a significant Victorian mansion with a chequered history.
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