Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden House
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Kinmel, Abergele, Conwy, designated on 5 August 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1997
- Locality
- Kinmel
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25802, -3.52269
- Cadw reference
- 18717
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1963 · Map No. 35 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
The house is set by the present entrance driveway from Glascoed, at the S point of Old Kinmel gardens.
History
The house was built in 1853 by Hugh Robert Hughes, nephew to William Lewis Hughes, 2nd Baron Dinorben,who had died the previous year. It is the first element of his extensive building programme at Kinmel.
Exterior
Built of coursed limestone, with slate roofs. Gothic style house of 2 storeys, with two gables to each front, and stone stacks. The E wing gable is set forward, with the entrance door on the W. Three-light trefoil-headed painted stone windows to each floor, but 4-light on the N of the W range, facing the extensive view. Minimal bargeboards. Stone stack with battered top section, with yellow pots on the stack on the W gable. On the N side, a heraldic stone carving displaying the Hughes arms impaling Ravensworth, the Lewis arms omitted.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection, March 1997.
Reason for designation
Included as a good and well preserved example of an estate cottage, a precursor of the Victorian work at Kinmel showing the style first adopted.
Nearby in the register
- Ruins of Old Kinmel, in the grounds of Kinmel ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Kitchen Garden Walls SE of KinmelGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Icehouse to the NW of the Kitchen Garden at KinmelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gates and Gate Piers at the E end of the Broad WalkGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.