Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
15925
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/04/1995  
Date of Amendment
08/04/1997  
Name of Property
Gate and gate-piers beside E Lodge  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
Jeffreyston  
Town
 
Locality
Cresselly  
Easting
207129  
Northing
206287  
Street Side
 
Location
Closing the former E driveway to Cresselly House. Facing Lanesend junction, on the by-road to Jeffreyston from the A4075 at Cresselly.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Built after 1888, but consistent in design with the estale improvements by Clarke and Holland of Newmarket for Lady Catherine Allen. Cresselly House was built c. 1770 by John Bartlett Allen.  

Exterior
This is the finest pair of gate-piers on the Cresselly Estate. Pair of square, ashlar, gate-piers with rock-faced rubble panels and crocket and rosette cornices. Block pedestals rise through pyramidal caps, polygonal bases to elaborate ball finials; panelled pedestals with Allen of Cresselly metal crests (now missing). Single, side-hung timber gate similar to that at opposite end of this driveway; ironwork bars and diagonal brace with scrolly ends and pierced timber panels to bottom. Flanking low quadrant walls.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as part of a well-preserved Victorian scheme of estate improvements. Group value.  

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