Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82653
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/2004
Date of Amendment
31/03/2004
Name of Property
Gatepiers and gates to forecourt at Trawsgoed House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Trawsgoed
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Trawsgoed
Easting
267140
Northing
273102
Street Side
Location
Situated opposite NE entrance front, in line with front door.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Earlier C20 iron gates and stone piers made for the 7th Earl of Lisburne to enclose the forecourt, shown under construction in a photograph of 1927. The gates are ornamental, giving access only to a ha-ha beyond.
Exterior
Pair of cast-iron gates between rubble stone square piers with stepped caps and tall ashlar urn finials flanked by low rubble walls ramped up to piers. Gates each have a band of circles at foot and at level of lock, narrow ovals below lock rail and spearhead rails above with opposed curves between, above lock rail and below top rail. Urns are turned with ball finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good garden feature, marking the boundary between the forecourt and the park, of group value with the mansion.
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