21250

 

II  

Designated  

29/01/1999  

29/01/1999  

Gate, Gatepiers and Gate Posts at the entrance to Merthyr Mawr House  

 

Bridgend  

Merthyr Mawr  

 

Merthyr Mawr House  

288988  

178342  

 

Adjacent to New Inn Lodge and set back from the S side of New Inn Road at the entrance to Merthyr Mawr House. Approximately 400m NNE of the house.  

Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  

 

Sir John Nicholl purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and planned a new country residence away from the old manor house, Merthyr Mawr Hall (now the site of Home Farm). A new site was chosen below Chapel Hill which overlooks the Ogmore valley, where Merthyr Mawr House was built 1806-9. The original road to Merthyr Mawr village was appropriated by Nicholl as the drive to the new house, at the entrance to which New Inn Lodge had been built by 1813. The stone gate piers were probably added mid C19, and are probably contemporary with the similar piers at West Lodge, the drive from which was added in the period 1843-78. The gate was brought to Merthyr Mawr after being salvaged from one of Thomas Telford's road-building projects, probably the Bristol to Milford Haven mail route, where work was undertaken from 1824. The design was produced specifically for the toll gates on Telford's Holyhead Road c1815-30, and was subsequently used on his other road-building projects.  

A 'Telford' style gate painted white, with wrought-iron bars emanating from the hinges in a sunburst fashion. The round cast iron posts have ball finials. Flanking the iron piers are square piers of coursed, tooled stone with swept pyramidal caps.  

 

Included for its distinctive style, and for group value with other associated listed items connected with Merthyr Mawr House.