Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18751
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/08/1997
Date of Amendment
07/08/1997
Name of Property
Entrance gate and gatepiers at Court Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
New Inn
Town
Pontypool
Locality
Llanvihangel Pontymoel
Easting
330425
Northing
201225
Street Side
N
Location
Immediately on the north side of the junction of Usk Road and the A4042 and approached by a drive beside The Horse and Jockey P.H.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An early C19 gate to a smart farmyard. One of the improvements following the purchase of the farm by the Pontypool Park estate in the early C19 during the ownership of Capel Hanbury Leigh (1795-1861).
Exterior
Cast and wrought iron gate and gatepiers. Solid cast square section piers capped by neo-classical urns. The piers are surrounded in the form of a square by wrought posts and these support the wrought 7-bar gate with strainers from the corners to the centre of the top and bottom bars. Cast rosettes at the cross-overs and small vases on the side posts. Rising butts to allow it to open in both directions.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Court Farmhouse and the other listed buildings at this especially well preserved farm.
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