Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18680
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Walls and Gate Piers to the Venetian Garden at Kinmel, with 3 sets of steps
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Kinmel
Easting
298023
Northing
374914
Street Side
Location
The formal sunken Venetian Garden lies in front of the rear, W elevation of Kinmel.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Laid out in c1870-75, probably to the design of Willian Andrews Nesfield, the famous Victorian landscape designer, in his later, simplified style, as part of the setting to his son's new design for Kinmel.
Exterior
Enclosing walls of 7 courses of red brick set on a stone plinth, and carrying a moulded stone coping, in all totalling c90cm high. Gate and gate piers on the long axis; alternate courses of brick and stone, terminating in ball finials. Steps on the same axis, and from the side terraces lead down to the sunken area of the garden.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an important element in the setting of Kinmel, and for its interest as the work of the famous garden designer W A Nesfield.
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