Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden seat in the grounds to east of Shirenewton Hall
Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 March 1989
- Locality
- Shirenewton
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Shirenewton
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63755, -2.75203
- Cadw reference
- 2821
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
Sited immediately above boundary railings and revetment wall alongside the road to Crick about 100m to the east of Shirenewton Hall.
History
The oriental gardens were laid out for Charles Liddell who purchased Shirenewton Hall in 1900 and made a number of improvements to it. This is one of the structures which survive, although not itself oriental in character.
Exterior
This building is a small square, classical temple or garden seat. It is open-sided with curved stone pediments and leaded roofs with a ball-finial to centre. Turned Doric columns with square plinths linked by dwarf stone walls on three sides.
Reason for designation
Included for its group value with Shirenewton Hall and the other listed items in the grounds.
Nearby in the register
- Summerhouse in the grounds to east of Shirenewton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Shirenewton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables, Coach house and attached boundary walls at Shirenewton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gates, Gatepiers, Railings and Walls at Shirenewton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.