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
82903
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/06/2004
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
Terrace walls and balustrades at Cwm Rhuddan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Cwm Rhuddan
Easting
276065
Northing
232832
Street Side
Location
Situated on S side of Cwm Rhuddan mansion.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terrace walls with terracotta balustrade presumably of 1870 when the house was built. The balustrade runs along the S front and returns along the W front to terminate against the big added NW corner block
Exterior
Terrace walls and balustrades. Rubble stone retaining walls carrying yellow terracotta balustrade of neo-Jacobean keyed ovals with moulded coping. Long sections of balustrade between plain rendered piers with moulded terracotta caps, 3 sections to left and 5 to right of flight of ashlar steps up to front door. One section each side of steps. At end of right part is a little quarter-round link in angle to 2-bay section returning S at right angles. At end of left section a 3-bay section returns N along E garden front terminated at the NW corner block.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as good example of Victorian terracotta garden ornament, of group value with the house at Cwm Rhuddan.
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