Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81796
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/2003
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
Garden walls to S, W and N of Nantygarth
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Lower Machen
Easting
322619
Northing
188007
Street Side
Location
On the W side of Lower Machen and on the N side of the main road through the village.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Picturesque Gothic garden wall to former outer garden of Machen House, now surrounding C20 house, Nantygarth. Wall is similar to that on W side of existing Machen House gardens. The walls are part of the Gothic setting of Machen House built 1831 for the Rev. C.A.S. Morgan.
Exterior
Walls of purple rubble stone with end-on coping stones, S wall runs W from driveway with pointed arched doorway in grey stone to left of driveway. At left end, SW corner tower of two walls with pointed opening to each outlined in squared grey stone and battlements. Wall then runs N with sequence from SW of corner tower, square pier, raised section of wall, square pier, another raised wall, pier and NW corner tower. The raised sections of wall have a pointed loop and 3 battlements alternately gabled and square, the piers are square with chamfered caps and small sandstone obelisk finials. The top corner tower is cruder than SW feature, with one blocked pointed opening. Plain garden wall runs back along N side to join garden wall of Machen House at another tower feature, this one with one E face into Machen House garden and one S into Nantygarth garden.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of the group of Gothic estate buildings associated with Machen House.
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