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
81269
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/06/2003
Date of Amendment
30/06/2003
Name of Property
Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at Insole Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llandaff
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Llandaff
Easting
314989
Northing
177739
Street Side
Location
Part of the important group of estate buildings surrounding Insole Court.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Probably built in 1855 by W G & E Habershon for J H Insole, the local colliery and shipping owner. Likely to be contemporary with the first build of the house.
Exterior
Constructed of squared, coursed rock-faced Radyr sandstone with Bath limestone ashlar dressings. Two square piers with machicolated cornice and stepped caps, one with the family crest of griffin with shield, this is missing from the other. Curving walls on either side of the drive capped with ashlar coping form a bridge carrying the drive over a small ravine.
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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