Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden House at Insole Court
Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 June 2003
- Locality
- Llandaff
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llandaff
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49172, -3.22610
- Cadw reference
- 81264
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
On the south side of the house and part of the important group of estate buildings surrounding Insole Court.
History
The garden house appears on the first edition OS map of 1874, but it must have been very new then.
Exterior
Octagonal garden house constructed of river pebbles with dressed pennant quoins to each corner. Pyramind Welsh slate roof. Pointed arch doorway on one face with pointed arch windows on the flanking faces, the rest are blind. The doorway is blocked with a modern steel gate.
Interior
The interior is now featureless.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of the garden and estate buildings of a significant Victorian mansion with a chequered history.
Nearby in the register
- Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at Insole CourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Flight of Steps from Upper to Lower Terrace at Insole CourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Terrace Wall in Garden to south of Insole CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Insole CourtInstitutionalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.