Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Wall and Pergola at High Glanau
Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1989
- Locality
- Mitchel Troy
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Mitchel Troy
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76247, -2.72866
- Cadw reference
- 2817
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
To S of the house reached along a broad, tree-lined path, formerly with herbaceous borders, divides the lawns and informal gardens from the kitchen garden and greenhouses.
History
Contemporary with the house - 1922-3. The grounds were laid out by H.Avray Tipping in a style similar to that practised by Gertrude Jekyll. He was one of the founders of 'Country Life' and a leading early C20 architectural historian.
Exterior
Swept up rubble wall with coping running from the woodland at the SW edge of the informal gardens up to the narrow country lane. At the western end is a garden shed projecting to both sides of the wall. Beyond is a doorway through to the kitchen garden with stepped voussoirs to N side. Steps rise to E, to the pergola (which has recently been restored): this is carried by the 4 cylindrical columns and the taller buttressed wall. Further doorway at E end.
Reason for designation
Included as part of Avray Tipping's original layout at High Glanau, and for group value with the house.
Nearby in the register
- Greenhouse at High GlanauGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Terraces at High GlanauGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- High GlanauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garage at High GlanauDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.