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Boundary wall running north from Porth Mawr Gate-house to Pen-y-dre Lodge

A Grade II Listed Building in Crickhowell, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8605 / 51°51'37"N

Longitude: -3.1375 / 3°8'15"W

OS Eastings: 321762

OS Northings: 218606

OS Grid: SO217186

Mapcode National: GBR F0.SY3P

Mapcode Global: VH6CH.KHPK

Plus Code: 9C3RVV66+6X

Entry Name: Boundary wall running north from Porth Mawr Gate-house to Pen-y-dre Lodge

Listing Date: 13 June 1978

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7160

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007160

Location: Enclosing the Herbert family castellated mansion, Cwrt-y-Crw, but now forming a garden wall to Porth Mawr House, some modern houses and Pen-y-Dre Lodge.

County: Powys

Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)

Community: Crickhowell

Built-Up Area: Crickhowell

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

C15 origins but now an almost completely C19 Romantic reconstruction.

Exterior

Crenellated parapet at varying levels stepping down beyond gateway and curving around to NW opposite Rectory Road. Plain cappings, feathered aprons to crenels, plinth. At NW end the battlemented parapet ceases and the wall slopes down to Pen-y-Dre Lodge. Boarded door openings, including the former Postern Gate to right of Gatehouse.

Just inside the wall to S end stands the Italian stone pine tree, said to be one of the finest in the country. Subterranean vault behind the wall to the N end.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • I Porth-Mawr Gatehouse
    Forward to the street and set into a long rubble crenelated wall now enclosing Porth Mawr house but formerly the castellated Herbert family mansion called Cwrt-y-Carw. Gatehouse adjoins side of house
  • II Porth Mawr House
    At the junction of Brecon Road, High Street and New Road; enclosed behind medieval and later crenellated wall and reached by a short driveway N off New Road or through Porth Mawr gatehouse.
  • II Ashfield
    On an elevated site at the bottom of Rectory Road on the corner with Brecon Road; reached by a short driveway entered between rubble gate piers and pointed wooden gates.
  • II Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon Road
    Boundary walls flanking New Road, turns N at junction with Brecon Road and incorporates early C19 former stables and coach house to S of Porthmawr House.
  • II NO.1 Llanbedr Road, Powys
    Near the junction with Brecon Road, the western end of a splayed terrace stepped in the slope.
  • II NO.2 Llanbedr Road, Powys
    Near the junction with Brecon Road, the western end of a splayed terrace stepped in the slope
  • II D.N.Stores
    At the northern end of the street beyond the Cambrian Hotel, continuous with No 3 (no longer of special interest).
  • II NO.3 Llanbedr Road, Powys
    Rear the junction with Brecon Road, the western end of a splayed terrace stepped in the slope.

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