Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
S Garden Pavilion including attached walls, alcove gatepiers and gates immediately to E of house
Marchwiel, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 9 June 1952
- Locality
- Erddig
- Community
- Marchwiel
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02699, -3.00617
- Cadw reference
- 17857
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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
Attached to the S end of the E side of the house and framing the parterre.
History
This part of the garden was remodelled in the 1860s. The walls flanking the parterres were partially demolished in 1898 and the shaped gable was added to the pavilion c1912.
Exterior
A brick wall with flat stone parapet runs at right angles to the house at the SE end and is attached to a pair of square-section brick gatepiers with flat stone caps with iron gates of late C19 character. The wall continues then returns at right angles. In the angle is a seating alcove consisting of a curved recess framed by square-section brick piers with flat stone caps, there is a shaped gable and the entrance arch is of hard red Ruabon brick. The wall continues parallel to the house and the return at right angles is formed by a brick pavilion framed by rusticated stone piers with ball finials. The extravagantly shaped gable is built above a string course and it contains arch-headed windows at each side and a central circular opening. The wall returns at right angles and set into it on an axis through the rose garden and Moss Walk is a seating alcove consisting of a gabled opening to a curved recess flanked by red brick piers with ball finials. These and the gable have dentil decoration in buff brick.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-designed Victorian/Edwardian garden scheme and as an essential part of the setting of the house.
Group value with Erddig and the garden structures of the E front of the house.
Nearby in the register
- Cupola to SE of the houseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sundial on main axis of the formal gardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Kitchen and attached laundries, bakehouse and scullery at ErddigDomesticunder 1 mi
- ErddigDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.