Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Balustrade to sunken garden at Talygarn
Pont-y-Clun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Talygarn
- Community
- Pont-y-Clun
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51140, -3.39699
- Cadw reference
- 23921
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
On the N side of the house and forecourt.
History
The sunken garden N of the house was created in 1888 and was subsequently enlarged, taking its present form by 1899.
Talygarn was purchased by G T Clark, the prominent industrialist and antiquary, in 1865. The present house retains the core of an earlier house and was built mainly 1879-82 with further important additions in 1892-4 and the early C20. The gardens and park were laid out from 1877 with formal gardens to the S, W and N of the house, and with informal woodland grounds centred on a lake to the S of the house.
Exterior
The open stone balustrade is aligned roughly E-W parallel with the house and marking the boundary of the forecourt in front of the house. It has shaped balusters, wide intermediate piers, and flat copings. Steps are at the E and W ends. In the centre is a semi-circular recess with a continuous bench.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Talygarn and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Bench on W side of sunken garden at TalygarnGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Bench on E side of sunken garden at TalygarnGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- TalygarnHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Bench on N side of sunken garden at TalygarnGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.