Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81795
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/2003
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
Front gates and railings to The Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Lower Machen
Easting
322791
Northing
187980
Street Side
Location
On the E side of the road N through Lower Machen village, some 100m S of the Church of Saint Michael.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Front railings with gates and piers to pair of estate cottages of c. 1860-70 built for Machen House estate, owned from 1831 by the Rev C.A.S. Morgan.
Exterior
Two sets of gatepiers of yellow brick and stone with yellow brick cornices with shallow pyramidal caps, iron overthrow to left gates only. Cast-iron double gates with acorn finials to outer uprights. Low retaining wall between gates with stone coping and iron railings with spearheads and large fleur-de-ly finials to standards.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as set of C19 railings and cast-iron gates, of group value with The Cottage.
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