Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls of walled garden and lean-to at Gelli
Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1996
- Locality
- Trefilan
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Nantcwnlle
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.19474, -4.12894
- Cadw reference
- 17807
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated enclosing garden to N and W of Gelli.
History
Cob or clom garden walls. Uncertain date, possibly early C18 contemporary with original house. One other known example is at Llanllyr, Llanfihangel Ystrad.
Exterior
Earth garden walls around three sides of Gelli walled garden. Rubble stone high base, then cob formerly whitewashed and corrugated-iron capping, over thatch. On N side walls are severely eroded. One N door. On E side is rubble stone and slate lean-to, six open bays with whitewashed stone piers and length of whitewashed wall to right. S side has one short stretch to join NE angle of house, with one entry framed in stone, and another short section W of the house with broad opening, possibly altered, and two pointed arches. This stretch is in rubble stone. W side has one door with timber lintel.
Reason for designation
Listed as the best regional example of enclosure walls in clom or cob to a walled garden.
Nearby in the register
- GelliDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn cottage at GelliAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowshed at GelliAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on N side of farmyard at GelliAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.