Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled garden at Clytha Park
Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 15 March 2000
- Locality
- Clytha
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77737, -2.91681
- Cadw reference
- 22998
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 some 200m NE of Clytha Park to left of track to Chapel Farm
History
Walled garden to Clytha Park, later C18, built for William Jones Sr of Clytha House, the predecessor to the present Clytha Park house which was built in 1824-8 for William Jones' nephew. Part of estate improvements of the late 1780s probably designed by John Davenport, who designed the Clytha Castle folly. Marked on 1845 tithe map.
Exterior
Walled garden, irregular plan of straight N wall and E and W walls running slightly inwards to curved S wall. Tudor arched entries on N and SE sides. Red brick walls with splayed base, buttress piers, and stone flat coping. Bricks laid one course of headers to 3 of stretchers. Lean-to stone outbuilding against outside N wall, greenhouse against inside N wall.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial and impressively walled garden.
Nearby in the register
- Clytha ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chapel Farmhouse and attached outbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
- Huntsman's CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Lodge, Clytha ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.