Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Summerhouse in walled garden at Cefnamwlch
Tudweiliog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 March 1998
- Locality
- Cefnamwlch
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Tudweiliog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88724, -4.62490
- Cadw reference
- 19439
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 inside the walled garden at Cefnamwlch, some 15m from the N wall and at the end of an approach path from the main gates in the S wall.
History
Late C18 or early C19 garden house in walled garden, probably originally the kitchen garden to Cefnamwlch.
Exterior
Summerhouse, red brick with large stone quoins, pyramid slate roof with broad flat eaves. Red brick SE corner stack. Two storeys, square plan with a single first floor 3-light mullion-and-transom window each of the 3 main sides, and one more to W ground floor. Windows have slab lintels and slate hoodmoulds. E window has lattice glazing. Ground floor has door on E side to right, plank door with similar lintel and hoodmould. Rear wall is of rubble stone.
Interior
Brick floor, pine joists and ladder stairs. Plastered upper room with corner fireplace.
Reason for designation
A rare and substantial Georgiansummer house, and a significant element within the walled garden at Cefnamwlch
Nearby in the register
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- Walled Garden at CefnamwlchDomesticunder 1 mi
- Font in garden at CefnamwlchDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mounting Block at CefnamwlchDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.