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Wall of Bodelwyddan Castle Garden with Bothy at W and Gateway at E
Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 6 December 2002
- Locality
- Bodelwyddan Castle
- Community
- Bodelwyddan
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25960, -3.50459
- Cadw reference
- 80759
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
About 200m to the SW of Bodelwyddan Castle
History
On the W side of the Bodelwyddan Castle garden an original perimeter wall in limestone survives, which was faced in brickwork internally and considerably heightened probably in the early C19. Integral with this improvement is a 2-storey gardener''s bothy standing against the W side.
Landscaping work was carried out c1910 by Sir Thomas Mawson, considerably altering the gardens. Of the entire circuit of garden walls, only the part on the W side was retained; on the E side Mawson built a low wall so visitors to the garden could enjoy the landscape views across the valley. Mawson described his work as ''''necessary improvements on a difficult site''''. The small Tuscan building on the E side was brought from the N side of the castle; it was in existence in 1820 and was perhaps a gazebo; here Mawson used it as a gateway.
Exterior
A stone wall about 3m in height, now visible only on the W side, widended and doubled in height in brickwork. The wall is without buttresses and has a thin stone coping. Attached to the wall on the W side is a gardener''s bothy of 2-storeys in brickwork, and a stone-walled paddock behind it.
On the E side, on the line of the C20 low perimeter wall which completes the enclosure, is a Tuscan gateway with 4 columns and an entablature with a wrought iron gate to its rear.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of the setting of the Castle, an original walled garden as remodelled by Sir T H Mawson.
Nearby in the register
- Play House in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Obelisk in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Sundial in Bodelwyddan Castle Walled GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Garden Shelter in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.