Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82668
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/2004
Date of Amendment
31/03/2004
Name of Property
The White Gates
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Trawsgoed
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Trawsgoed
Easting
267210
Northing
272688
Street Side
Location
Situated to S of mansion some 400m SE of Pont Trawsgoed.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Gatepiers gates and railings of earlier C19 former main entrance to Trawsgoed, created when the new turnpike road was routed around the estate in the 1780s. The drive is marked on 1845 tithe map.
Exterior
Four tall piers of tooled squared stone with fine cast-iron double gates to centre and matching single gates each side. Curving low rubble walls flanking. Four tall square piers of tooled grey stone with smooth angles, pale grey granite plinth, moulded ashlar string course below the top course, under ashlar stepped cap the top a shallow pyramid. Gates have 2 decorated bands one over dog-bars, one at top, both with rosettes in squares and short spearheads above each square. Top rail also has longer spearheads alternating with each short one. The vertical rails are square section with quadrant-curved angles.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good set of country house entrance gates of the earlier C19.
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