Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walled garden at Gyrn Castle
Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2001
- Locality
- Gyrn Castle
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32313, -3.33548
- Cadw reference
- 25105
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the SW side of the house.
History
The present Gyrn Castle was built for John Douglas, a Holywell cotton manufacturer, in the period 1817-24, and was an enlargement of an earlier house. After Douglas died in 1839 the house was purchased by Sir Edward Bates, a Liverpool merchant and ship owner, who was responsible for most of the outbuildings, including the walled garden. The walled garden was built in the third quarter of the C19 and is first shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey. It 1890 it was known as the Melon Yard.
Exterior
A long narrow garden on a S-facing sloping site, the N wall being higher than the S wall, and the W side narrower than the E. Of embattled rubble stone walls, except the curving SW end which has no battlements and is probably earlier. The SW corner has a polygonal castellated turret, L of which is the segmental-headed doorway. This has a replaced door with vertical ribs. The internal N wall is buttressed. On its outer NE side is an added projection. A former garden terrace was built against the outer S wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C19 walled garden, and for group value with Gyrn Castle and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Gateway and boundary wall to W of service yard at Gyrn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gyrn CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gateway and wall to N side of service yard at Gyrn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Coach house & stable block at Gyrn CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.