Gate Piers to Service Court and Attached Walls at Merthyr Mawr House, Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4898 / 51°29'23"N

Longitude: -3.6017 / 3°36'6"W

OS Eastings: 288893

OS Northings: 177972

OS Grid: SS888779

Mapcode National: GBR HC.K8S2

Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.JT9B

Plus Code: 9C3RF9QX+W8

Entry Name: Gate Piers to Service Court and Attached Walls at Merthyr Mawr House

Listing Date: 29 January 1999

Last Amended: 29 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21234

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300021234

Location: On N side of service court and continuing on N and W sides of service block.

County: Bridgend

Community: Merthyr Mawr

Locality: Merthyr Mawr House

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: House

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History

Sir John Nicholl purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and planned a new country residence away from the old manor house, Merthyr Mawr Hall (now the site of Home Farm). A new site was chosen below Chapel Hill which overlooks the Ogmore valley. In 1806 Henry Wood was engaged as architect and conceived a new house with attached offices and a stable, drawings for which were much modified by Nicholl. The wall of the service court was added in the later C19 after the servant's wing which it encloses was built in the 1850s.

Exterior

Gate piers to the service court are of ashlar with 2-tier pyramidal caps. On the R (W) side of the piers is a 6-bay wall of tooled snecked stone with 2-tier ramped coping and shallow buttresses, which has narrow fixed windows lighting a covered passage at the rear of the service wing. The wall returns to S on the W side of the service wing with coursed masonry, 2 further windows, and terminates in a square pier. On the L (E) side the gate piers the wall has a single shallow buttress, then continues as rear wall of a vehicle shed and workshop (see item 11388).

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value with Merthyr Mawr House and other associated listed items.

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Gate Piers to Service Court and Attached Walls at Merthyr Mawr House

A Grade II Listed Building in Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend