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Gate piers to Tythegston Court

A Grade II Listed Building in Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5006 / 51°30'2"N

Longitude: -3.644 / 3°38'38"W

OS Eastings: 285983

OS Northings: 179239

OS Grid: SS859792

Mapcode National: GBR H9.JQ3Y

Mapcode Global: VH5HH.SKF1

Plus Code: 9C3RG924+6C

Entry Name: Gate piers to Tythegston Court

Listing Date: 26 July 1963

Last Amended: 29 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11222

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300011222

Location: On the SW side of the house, set back from the road behind a high wall.

County: Bridgend

Community: Merthyr Mawr

Community: Merthyr Mawr

Locality: Tythegston

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

The Tythegston Estate belonged to Turberville family from the C12, but the present house is principally the work of Henry Knight in the period 1765-71. The gate piers stood at the main entrance to Tythegston Court and probably belong to this period. In the mid C20 a new boundary wall was built at the front of the house which left the original gate piers now inside the garden.

Exterior

Stone gate piers (with attached stub walls of former boundary walls) with vermiculated rustication, above which is a key pattern frieze, swags in the wide faces and roundels in the narrow faces, and capped with sphinxes.

Reasons for Listing

Well-detailed Georgian gate piers and for group value with Tythegston Court.

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  • II* Tythegston Court
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  • II Church of St Tudwg
    Set back from E side of minor road through the hamlet, in a walled churchyard.
  • II Milepost
    Nearly opposite Ty Mawr on the N side of the main village throughfare.
  • II* Ty Mawr aka The Great House
    On the main village thoroughfare a short distance SW of the Church of St David.
  • II Cliff Cottage
    Opposite W end of Church of St David and on a rise above High Street.
  • II The Laleston Inn
    In the village centre just N of the church and directly fronting the street.
  • II Churchyard Cross in St David's churchyard
    On the S side of the church near the porch.

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