Boundary walls, gatepiers and gate to forecourt and driveway at Old Gwernyfed is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. Boundary wall and gate.

Boundary walls, gatepiers and gate to forecourt and driveway at Old Gwernyfed

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 September 1961
Type
Boundary wall and gate
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The boundary walls, gatepiers, and gate at Old Gwernyfed date from the 19th century. The front boundary wall is made of well-selected rubble stone, approximately 60 centimeters thick and 1.8 meters high, featuring squared stone-on-edge copings. To the southwest, the garden boundary wall is less well finished, with uncut copings. The wall turns inward, and the coping rises to meet the gate piers at the main driveway.

The gate piers are constructed of rubble stone and topped with two offsetting courses, each surmounted by heraldic gorged demi-lions rampant on a wreath, with a large spray of oak leaves on the outer side.

The wrought iron gate, made by Hill and Smith of Brierley Hill, Birmingham, features horizontal bars that pierce diagonal iron flats, with the styles rising to a curled finial. The gate is hung on a fluted iron column with a necking band and a knuckle hinge at the bottom.

The lion crests belonging to Captain Wood were removed from Gwernyfed Park in the 1920s.

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