Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81868
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/06/1962
Date of Amendment
30/09/2003
Name of Property
Garden walls and gates at Llantarnam Abbey
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
Llantarnam
Town
Cwmbran
Locality
Llantarnam Abbey
Easting
331117
Northing
192896
Street Side
Location
Situated on the S side of Llantarnam Abbey.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Garden walls to S and E sides of gardens st Llantarnam Abbey, similar to the low walls of the forecourt and presumably of c 1834-6 when the house was remodelled for R.J. Blewitt by T.H. Wyatt. Walls front a dry ditch and gates open onto shallow bridges into surrounding pasture. The SW and SE corners are treated as polygonal bastions with matching low walls.
Exterior
Ashlar low garden walls with roll-mould coping. Occasional small pedestrian gates with Gothic cast iron gates between piers with cross-gabled caps and squat octagonal finials. The gateways are flanked by pierced stone square panel each side. One gate on N, one on long E side and one on S side, which returns to link with forecourt walls (listed separately). SE and SW angled bastions with pierced square panels. Bastions each have centre statue (listed separately).
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of the setting of Llantarnam Abbey.
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