Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23918
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/08/2000
Date of Amendment
15/08/2000
Name of Property
Sundial in S garden at Talygarn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Pont-y-Clun
Town
Locality
Talygarn
Easting
303200
Northing
179970
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the house, below the lower terrace wall.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
An Edwardian sundial first shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1914, added to the earlier terraces of the formal garden S of the house erected in 1893.
Talygarn was purchased by G T Clark, the prominent industrialist and antiquary, in 1865. The present house retains the core of an earlier house and was built mainly 1879-82 with further important additions in 1892-4 and the early C20. The gardens and park were laid out from 1877 with formal gardens to the S, W and N of the house, and with informal woodland grounds centred on a lake to the S of the house.
Exterior
A shaped sundial of reconstituted stone standing on an octagonal stepped plinth of sandstone. The stem has twisted fluting while the polygonal head is in the form of a crocket capital. The gnomon is now missing.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Talygarn and other associated listed items.
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