Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled Garden and Bothy at Marchwiel Hall
Marchwiel, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Marchwiel Hall, Marchwiel, Wrexham, designated on 3 December 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 December 1996
- Locality
- Marchwiel Hall
- Community
- Marchwiel
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02566, -2.97845
- Cadw reference
- 17842
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 to the NE of Marchwiel Hall.
History
Remains of C18 walled garden, mid C19 additions including attached bothy and range of lean-to heated greenhouses.
Exterior
Garden wall, red brick stretcher bond stepped with curved sweeping sandstone coping stones. To N of wall mid C19 bothy, red brick with dentil cornice and slate roof. 2 storey with attic. Unusually ornate mid C19 cast-iron gothic traceried windows to ground floor and attic. Brick stack to rear with terracotta pot. To left of doorway lean-to sheds associated with greenhouses comprising boiler house and potting sheds. To S of wall range of late C19 greenhouses.
Interior
Bothy contains simple mid C19 fireplace and wooden staircase to attic floor.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Marchwiel Hall and the adjoining stables.
Nearby in the register
- Stables at Marchwiel HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Marchwiel HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pigsties at Marchwiel HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Mill HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.