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
81868
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/06/1962
Date of Amendment
30/09/2003
Name of Property
Garden walls and gates at Llantarnam Abbey
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
Llantarnam
Town
Cwmbran
Locality
Llantarnam Abbey
Easting
331117
Northing
192896
Street Side
Location
Situated on the S side of Llantarnam Abbey.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Garden walls to S and E sides of gardens st Llantarnam Abbey, similar to the low walls of the forecourt and presumably of c 1834-6 when the house was remodelled for R.J. Blewitt by T.H. Wyatt. Walls front a dry ditch and gates open onto shallow bridges into surrounding pasture. The SW and SE corners are treated as polygonal bastions with matching low walls.
Exterior
Ashlar low garden walls with roll-mould coping. Occasional small pedestrian gates with Gothic cast iron gates between piers with cross-gabled caps and squat octagonal finials. The gateways are flanked by pierced stone square panel each side. One gate on N, one on long E side and one on S side, which returns to link with forecourt walls (listed separately). SE and SW angled bastions with pierced square panels. Bastions each have centre statue (listed separately).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of the setting of Llantarnam Abbey.
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