Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden wall to N, W and S on W side of Glanhafren
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Glanhafren
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.63368, -3.14267
- Cadw reference
- 7731
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 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
Encloses the garden on the W side of the house.
History
The layout and part of the structure of the walls may be C18, though much of the brickwork is later.
Exterior
Red brick, c1.5m high, with buttresses against its outer face, and blue brick rounded copings. Stone capped piers in centre of S side.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the house at Glanhafren, and as a significant indicator of the early layout of its grounds.
Nearby in the register
- GlanhafrenDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Entrance Piers to SE of Glanhafren, including gateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Workman's HutAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Mill Office at Cil-cewydd MillAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.