Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Walls and Gateway to S and W of Fferm Farmhouse
Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 December 1997
- Locality
- Pontblyddyn
- Community
- Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13501, -3.07990
- Cadw reference
- 19116
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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
Situated on the S and W sides of Fferm Farmhouse on the N side of the A541.
History
Probably late C16/early C17 stone rubble walls forming 2 walled gardens to the S and W of Fferm Farmhouse. The erection of the walls and creation of the gardens is thought to be roughly contemporary with the building of the main house. Both gardens are shown on the 1721-42 and 1766 surveys of the property. The character and building stone, lamellar limestone are similar to those at Plas Teg. The NW corner of the orchard enclosure contains an arched gateway which is thought to have originally been sited in the N wall of the main forecourt to Fferm Farmhouse. The Orchard enclosure was slightly reduced in size in the 1950s when the present A541 was widened.
Exterior
Late C16 stone rubble walls forming 2 enclosed areas of garden and orchard. The compartment immediately behind the house is smaller, with a low stone wall on 2 sides. The other compartment, lies to the W and is rectangular in shape. The stone wall is approx. 2.5m in height and is topped by C19 upright coping stones. In NW corner is a late C17 arched gateway, with dressed sandstone voussoirs, modern gate.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a nearly complete complex of late C16 walled gardens and for group value with Fferm Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Farmyard Range to NW of Fferm FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fferm FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Brewhouse at Fferm FarmhouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- U-shaped Range of Farm Buildings to the NW of Fferm FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.