Gateposts, Ashley House, Mount Pleasant Road, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran 23 April 2021
A pair of redundant gateposts at Ashley House, once the residence of local brick-maker and builder-mason, Henry Parfitt who gave up brick making in 1896 due to financial difficulties.
It was built a short distance from his Pontnewydd red brick works (for many years also he leased the firebrick works up Upper Cwmbran). I suspect that what is now the adjacent public Pontnewydd Park was once the grounds of the house. For at least sixty years that I know of, Ashley House has been a youth club.
Gateposts, Ashley House, Mount Pleasant Road, Pontnewydd, Cwmbran 23 April 2021
A pair of redundant gateposts at Ashley House, once the residence of local brick-maker and builder-mason, Henry Parfitt who gave up brick making in 1896 due to financial difficulties.
It was built a short distance from his Pontnewydd red brick works (for many years also he leased the firebrick works up Upper Cwmbran). I suspect that what is now the adjacent public Pontnewydd Park was once the grounds of the house. For at least sixty years that I know of, Ashley House has been a youth club.