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
86911
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/10/2005
Date of Amendment
28/10/2005
Name of Property
Gates, piers and walls at entrance to Glanwysg
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Maescar
Town
Brecon
Locality
Sennybridge
Easting
291624
Northing
228435
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on S side of A40 just W of Sennybridge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Entrance gates to Glanwysg or Glanusk a small country house built in 1822 for John Christie owner of the Brecon Forest Tramway.
Exterior
Two gatepiers of tooled stone with square stepped caps and low plinths, double iron gates ramped down to meeting stile, with double mid-rail and spearhead bars. Two curving walls out to outer piers of squared tooled stone. A length of rubble wall runs back from the W pier to link to a tooled stone pentagonal pier with flat cap.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as the entrance to a late Georgian country house, of group value with Glanwysg.
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