Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls of Walled Garden and attached Bothies and Cottage at Piercefield Park
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 February 2001
- Locality
- Piercefield Park
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.65900, -2.68670
- Cadw reference
- 24760
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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
About 200m north west of the ruins of Piercefield House.
History
A late C18 walled garden with its associated bothies and gardener's cottage. It is described in the 1793 sale particulars. For further history of the estate see Piercefield House.
Exterior
A very large rectangular enclosure of sandstone rubble walling about 2.3m in height rising to 3.5m on the north wall, which supports the bothies and did support the greenhouses. The wall is much overgrown with ivy but it survives complete with a number of doorways and a break for carts at the north west corner. The range of bothies along the outside of the north wall have rubble walling but no roofs. The cottage, which is at the north east corner facing south into the garden is red brick and two storeys but is now much damaged. It has a central door and two windows on each floor with an oculus above, but the roof is now missing.
Interior
The interiors of the bothies and the cottage have been destroyed.
Reason for designation
Included as a late C18 walled garden which, despite damage, remains a significant component of this nationally important historic landscape and has group value with the adjacent barn and the ruins of Piercefield House.
Nearby in the register
- Barn and attached Byre near Piercefield StablesAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dam and Retaining Walls of Pond by the Walled Garden at Piercefield ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ruins of Piercefield House (Central Block)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Ruins of Piercefield House, Left Hand or West PavilionDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.