Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Summer-house & Walled Garden with Ha-ha and Gate Piers at Trevor Hall
Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trevor Isaf, Llangollen, Denbighshire, designated on 27 July 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 27 July 1993
- Locality
- Trevor Isaf
- Town
- Llangollen
- Community
- Llangollen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97222, -3.10946
- Cadw reference
- 1355
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately south of main front of Trevor Hall and overlooking Vale of Llangollen.
History
Mid C18 summer-house and walled garden probably built about the same time as rebuilding of Trevor Hall in 1742-3.
Exterior
Summer-house occupies W corner of walled enclosure bounded on S side by a ha-ha. Small Georgian-style pavilion with low, three centred ashlared stone arch with impost capitals; open to the east front. Outer ashlar piers with ball finials, linked by moulded cornice over rubble stone spandrel. Patterned tiled, lean-to roof with coped gable to rear.
Attached high rubble stone boundary wall (originally the orchard wall) with flat copings runs west to rear, single arched opening. The wall returns uphill to right to meet red brick north wall which runs back towards house.
From summer-house, there runs to east a masonry ha-ha topped by ironwork railings; the ha-ha joins a garden boundary wall running north which returns inward to meet twin rusticated gate piers with ball finials at driveway entrance.
Interior
High backed, curved timber seat within. Plaster ceiling, in poor state of repair at time of inspection (March 1997).
Reason for designation
Listed for its intrinsic merit as a mid-C18 garden feature and for its group value with Trevor Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Trevor HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- U-Plan Farm Group at Trevor Hall FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Trevor ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ysgoldy Brynhyfryd and two integrated HousesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.