Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Orchard walls at Graig Arthur Farm
Trelawnyd and Gwaenysgor, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 July 2001
- Locality
- Marian
- Community
- Trelawnyd and Gwaenysgor
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29842, -3.35366
- Cadw reference
- 25595
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
On the W side of the farmhouse.
History
Possibly contemporary with the house, which is dated 1776. The Tithe apportionment describes it as a garden in 1844. An alcove was inserted into the W wall in the late C19.
Exterior
Walls of rubble stone, up to 4m high, enclosing the N, W and part of the S side of a former orchard. The N wall abuts at its E end a former outbuilding now converted to a dwelling. The N wall faces a track and has a boarded door under a brick segmental head offset towards the E end. The outer W and S walls have raking buttresses and low buttresses with offsets, while the W wall is partly repaired with concrete render. A ledge in the outer face of the W wall suggests that in its present form the orchard is the result of 2 phases of building. The inner faces of the W and N walls are brick. At the N end of the W wall is an inserted round-back, plaster-vaulted alcove, above which an ex situ sculpted stone head, of uncertain date but possibly medieval, has been inserted.
Reason for designation
Listed as well-preserved orchard walls, a feature once common in the district, and for its contribution to the historic character of Graig Arthur Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Graig Arthur FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn and stable at Graig Arthur FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pentre Mawr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section E of TrelawnydLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.