Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Walls with Privy, Pavilion and Cottage at Garthgynan
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, designated on 19 May 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 May 2001
- Locality
- Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
- Community
- Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.08852, -3.28109
- Cadw reference
- 25211
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To south side of Garthgynan farmhouse
History
Probably C17, and contemporary with the earliest brickwork of Garthgynan farmhouse.
Exterior
Walled garden of Garthgynan, forming a rectangle of which the house closes the north side. Much of the walling consists of thin, handmade bricks of great irregularity; the east wall incorporates 14 small bee-boles, the west side 17.
A pyramid-roofed brickwork pavilion at the south west corner has been enlarged (C19?) to form a cottage; a similar pavilion probably existed at the south east corner, but has been demolished to the height of the garden wall. The surviving pavilion has a high level string course; a stone window frame facing east, blocked; a high level stone roundel with label mould facing north, also blocked; the south elevation has modern windows and there is a chimney set diagonally at the corner. The C19 extension to this building is in stone and brickwork with a slate roof and has an end chimney.
A small brickwork privy building at the north east corner has a monopitch roof, a re-used decorative stone frieze at the head of the wall and a door and window to the front.
Reason for designation
A fine example of a C17 formal walled garden with pavilions, attached to a listed house; listed also for group value with Garthgynan farmhouse and with other listed buildings of the farmyard.
Nearby in the register
- Smithy at GarthgynanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cottage and Brewhouse at GarthgynanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- GarthgynanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartsheds with Loft at GarthgynanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.