Kitchen garden walls, pavilion and terrace at Maes Manor

Cadw's description

Location

On the N side of the house.

History

Originally known as Maesruddud, Maes Manor was built in 1900 as an addition to an earlier house and extended in 1907 when the original house was demolished. The second phase was added for L. Brewer Williams by E.P. Warren, architect of London. Between 1907 and 1914 a number of ancillary buildings and garden structures, including the kitchen garden and pavilion, were built by Warren in collaboration with Thomas Mawson, who designed the garden.

Exterior

A kitchen garden rectangular in plan, with terrace at the S end and SE pavilion. The kitchen garden is enclosed by rubble stone walls with saddle-back tile coping and an inner face of brick. The NW and NE angles are curved (although the wall has been partly taken down to the NE). The E and W sides are stepped up the slope from S to N and each has a doorway with elliptical arch and replaced door. The lower S wall, facing the terrace, has central square freestone piers with ball finials to double iron gates with overthrow. A wider opening is to the W side.

At the external SE corner is a tall square single-storey pavilion of rubble stone with hipped stone-tile roof and apex finial, and hooded mullioned windows of reconstituted stone. The entrance on the W side faces the raised terrace. The doorway to the L has a moulded drip stone and replaced door. It has a 2-light window to its R. The S side has a 3-light window, the E side a 2-light window offset to the L. Stone steps abut the E wall. The S terrace has central stone steps in its S revetment. It projects further out to the SW angle where it has low splayed buttresses to the snecked stone revetment and retains part of a former open balustrade of reconstituted stone.

Reason for designation

Listed as an integral component of an Edwardian garden by one of the foremost contemporary garden designers, and for its contribution to the setting of the house.