Garden gateway with gates and attached wall at Ewenny Priory (house)
A Grade II Listed Building in Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan
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Coordinates
Latitude: 51.4884 / 51°29'18"N
Longitude: -3.5681 / 3°34'5"W
OS Eastings: 291219
OS Northings: 177766
OS Grid: SS912777
Mapcode National: GBR HD.KK5X
Mapcode Global: VH5HK.3VJD
Plus Code: 9C3RFCQJ+8P
Entry Name: Garden gateway with gates and attached wall at Ewenny Priory (house)
Listing Date: 3 March 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 19468
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
ID on this website: 300019468
Location: The gateway forms the entrance to the main garden from the Stable Court at the rear of Ewenny Priory (house).
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Community: Ewenny (Ewenni)
Community: Ewenny
Locality: Ewenny Priory
Traditional County: Glamorgan
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History
Early C19 gateway, part of the extensive programme involving remodelling of house c 1806 and landscaping of grounds. Wall shown onTithe Map of 1842 abutting house E at junction of old and new wings, as now, but extending W towards the wall joining N and S gatehouses; this latter area probably replanned and most of W section of wall demolished when W side of stable courtyard re-developed 1870s.
Exterior
Gateway comprises tall ashlar piers with shallow pyramidal caps surmounted by large stone orb finials, swept metal gates with curved braces, decorative rail and spear finials. Adjoining wall is of roughly dressed stone and abuts the house to E with a small surviving section to W.
Reasons for Listing
Included as a structure relating to the early C19 replanning of house and garden and as an imposing entrance gateway; group value with other buildings of Ewenny Priory in particular the house itself, the Stable Court, Ewenny Priory Church and Church of St Michael
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