Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled Garden at Dyffryn House
St. Nicholas and Bonvilston, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dyffryn, St. Nicholas and Bonvilston, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 14 September 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 September 1992
- Locality
- Dyffryn
- Community
- St. Nicholas and Bonvilston
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.44335, -3.30462
- Cadw reference
- 13472
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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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set in the slope to W of Dyffryn House on a NE/SW axis. Dyffryn is approximately 2km S of St. Nicholas.
History
Said to incorporate remains of the walled garden to the Elizabethan house that was on the site before the present house was built in 1891-3. Dyffryn is principally known for its gardens which were laid out for Reginald Cory by Thomas Mawson, the internationally known and notably prolific garden designer; work began in 1904/5. Sold in 1937 and purchased by Sir Cennydd Traherne who leased it to the County Council; now run as a conference centre. Until c1985 Dyffryn was a Botanical Garden.
Exterior
Rubble walls, with flat coping, close three sides of this walled garden, shown on Thomas Mawson's 1926 plan as the Kitchen Garden: the fourth side (NW) is formed by modern glass houses. Round arched entrances and iron gates; the ground level has been raised. No longer a kitchen garden, now with flower beds. Further glass houses at NE end backing onto rubble potting sheds and gardeners building's; two storey at low end turning to single storey as it steps up the slope.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Dyffryn House.
Nearby in the register
- Pompeian Garden at Dyffryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dyffryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lower South Terrace at Dyffryn Gardens(partly in St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community)Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Fountain to South of Dyffryn HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.