Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Wall of No. 1 The Twyn
St. Fagans, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 6 October 1977
- Locality
- St Fagans
- Town
- Cardff
- Community
- St. Fagans
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48562, -3.26997
- Cadw reference
- 82228
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
Attached to the front elevation of No. 1.
History
Possibly contemporary with the house and thus late C18 or early C19, but this feature may well be a part of the C19 improvements (see History). The walls are shown in the photograph in the Museum of Welsh Life which is said to date from c1890.
Exterior
Small garden forecourt enclosed by stone rubble walls with stone capping about 1m in height.
Reason for designation
Included as a part of the important group of historic estate buildings at the centre of St. Fagans village.
Nearby in the register
- No.1 The TwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 2 The TwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Riverside CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Silver StreamDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.