Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11222
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/07/1963
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Gate piers to Tythegston Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Merthyr Mawr
Town
Locality
Tythegston
Easting
285983
Northing
179239
Street Side
Location
On the SW side of the house, set back from the road behind a high wall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The Tythegston Estate belonged to Turberville family from the C12, but the present house is principally the work of Henry Knight in the period 1765-71. The gate piers stood at the main entrance to Tythegston Court and probably belong to this period. In the mid C20 a new boundary wall was built at the front of the house which left the original gate piers now inside the garden.
Exterior
Stone gate piers (with attached stub walls of former boundary walls) with vermiculated rustication, above which is a key pattern frieze, swags in the wide faces and roundels in the narrow faces, and capped with sphinxes.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-detailed Georgian gate piers and for group value with Tythegston Court.
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