Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gazebo and attached walls of former Kilvrough Manor Nursery
Pennard, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 10 February 2000
- Locality
- Kilvrough
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Pennard
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58178, -4.08376
- Cadw reference
- 22839
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 0.3km SW of Kilvrough Manor in woodland on the S side of Norton Lane at its junction with the A4118.
History
The present Kilvrough Manor was probably built in the 1770s by William Dawkins as a substantial enlargement of an earlier house, and was surrounded by parkland. The tree nursery and integral gazebo were added in the third quarter of the C19 and are first shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1877.
Exterior
The gazebo comprises a 2-stage castellated round tower of rubble stone, the upper stage slightly narrower. The battlements are partly missing and the structure is partly obscured by vegetation. On the N side, facing into the former nursery, is a pointed doorway. On the W side is a lancet opening to the upper stage. The tower stands at the SW corner of the former nursery, which is rectangular and approximately 85m by 40m in area. Low rubble boundary walls survive in part.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Kilvrough Manor and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Sundial at Kilvrough ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Kilvrough ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable Court at Kilvrough ManorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall at Kilvrough ManorGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.