Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
West and North Walls of the Gardens House enclosure
St. Fagans, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 October 1977
- Locality
- Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- St. Fagans
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48784, -3.26934
- Cadw reference
- 13892
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
One of the associated structures in the gardens of St Fagans Castle and part of the Museum of Welsh Life.
History
C19 and earlier. The land was purchased from the Church in 1859. The 1855 plan shows the Rectory, demolished in 1860, in this enclosure and some of the walling shown may correspond with the existing. Part of the Castle gardens had been tenanted in the first half of the C19 by the Rev. Lisle, Rector of St. Fagans 1792-1856 (qv Memorial in Churchyard of Church of St. Mary the Blessed Virgin), who used them for extensive vegetable and fruit growing. The enclosure was then used as the Castle Kitchen Garden from 1860 until the new Kitchen Garden was built on the site of the present Museum of Welsh Life building in 1908.
Exterior
High limestone and brick walls, the western wall is faced with stone on its west side and with brick on its east side and the northern wall is faced with stone on its north side and with brick on its south side. The brick faces are for fruit growing in the kitchen garden/orchard.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the structures associated with the gardens and estate of St. Fagans Castle.
Nearby in the register
- East Boundary Wall of the Ilex Grove running north to the lane at Clive CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- East Boundary Wall of St. Fagans Castle groundsDefenceunder 1 mi
- Gardens HouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Wall bounding north side & part of east side of the Mulberry Garden to north of St Fagans CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.