Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden pond with fountain in former rose garden at The Hendre
Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 19 March 2001
- Locality
- Hendre
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Whitecastle
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82268, -2.78674
- Cadw reference
- 25061
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
About 30m S of the house, overlooking the valley of a small brook.
History
A significant surviving feature of a former formal garden, probably constructed at about the same time as the library wing was added to the house, before 1902.
Exterior
A small circular pond in the centre of the former sunken rose garden, containing a pedestalled cast-iron fountain with 2 tiers of gadrooned bowls and the jet clasped by 2 cherubs.
Reason for designation
Included as a significant surviving feature of a former formal garden, and for group value with The Hendre.
Nearby in the register
- Garden pavilion, raised terrace and screen wall to former rose garden to E&S of The HendreGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- The HendreRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Former garage/workshop block to N of the main house at The HendreTransportunder 1 mi
- Ornamental bridge in the grounds of The HendreGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.