Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls to Walled Garden at Alltyrodyn
Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1993
- Locality
- Rhydowen
- Community
- Llandysul
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07650, -4.26608
- Cadw reference
- 10648
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 300m NW of mansion, below N drive.
History
Early C19
Exterior
Walled Garden: extensive garden surrounded by high rubble stone walls. Irregular, roughly triangular garden to S with cambered-headed entry on S side and W end doorway to ruins of former orangery or summerhouse. Similar doorway on N side into much larger rectangular garden with doorway at N end into Garden Cottage workshop.
Garden Cottage is later C19 rubble stone 2-window 2-storey building with slate roof, 2-stone stacks and 4-pane sashes, at right angles to wall with slate-roofed lean-to against wall, returned N as single storey workshop with stone end stack.
Reason for designation
Listed as a walled garden of impressive extent, rare in South Cardiganshire. Group value with other listed items at Alltyrodyn.
Nearby in the register
- The Bath House in grounds to NW of AlltyrodynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge on N Drive to AlltyrodynTransportunder 1 mi
- Garden Cottage at AlltyrodynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farm Range on NE side of Farmcourt at Alltyrodyn Home FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.