Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls surrounding Garden to west of Boverton House
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Boverton, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 10 September 1982.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 September 1982
- Locality
- Boverton
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40620, -3.46303
- Cadw reference
- 13240
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1858 · 20. Bridgewater. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in the western angle of Boverton Road and Eglwys Brewis Road. This garden is to the west of Boverton House and is separated from it and its main garden by the road.
History
Probably late C16 or early C17 in origin and contemporary with Boverton House (qv). The enclosure walls have been repaired since but otherwise appear unaltered. Built presumably as a sheltered vegetable or fruit garden, but it seems to have been unused for many years. An unusual and attractive feature of uncertain purpose, especially as it has only one narrow entrance.
Exterior
Wedge shaped garden enclosed by high walls of limestone rubble with a dressed coping along the roadside. Chamfered stone doorway with pointed head, Glamorganshire stops and a wooden boarded door set in narrow and slightly projecting south wall. Stone rubble walls incorporating a stone band which rises towards the top of the walls near the north-east end of the garden. The walls are about 2m in height, but much lower on the road side where the outside ground has risen considerably.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and historic walled garden which has group value with the adjacent Boverton House.
Nearby in the register
- Garden Walls and Railings of Boverton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boverton House with attached Stable RangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall and Gateway opposite Boverton HouseDefenceunder 1 mi
- NavronDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.