Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Garden House
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Powis Castle
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64983, -3.15740
- Cadw reference
- 16794
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Alongside the drive which now forms the main approach to the castle, and next to the Fountain Garden which occupies the NE section of the gardens.
Exterior
History: The house was probably built in the early-mid C19, adjacent to the kitchen gardens which formerly occupied the site of the Fountain Garden, and oriented towards the drive which was made in the late C18 as part of landscaping work carried out by Thomas Emes.
Exterior: Roughly coursed and squared green local stone, with slate roof; axial stacks (stone, truncated and then raised in brick). 2 storeys, a long gabled range to the rear, with hipped frontage block. Entrance in gable end of cross-range facing N: chamfered 4-centred archway, with 2-light mullioned window in splayed architrave with drop-ended hood moulds on each floor alongside it. Coped gable corbelled out on moulded kneelers. Similar detail in return elevations of frontage range, the upper windows in gabled dormers. The front elevation has similar windows with hood-moulds to ground floor, and coped gabled dormers above.
Listed as an example of an estate cottage in an outstanding setting.
Nearby in the register
- Gate to Fountain GardenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sundial in Fountain Garden at Powis CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Garden Wall to S of Nos 1 & 2 Park HousesDomesticunder 1 mi
- The BothyDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.