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
21445
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/03/1999
Date of Amendment
05/03/1999
Name of Property
Walls of former kitchen garden at Cefn Mably
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Rudry
Town
Locality
Cefn Mably
Easting
322117
Northing
184019
Street Side
Location
On W side of house and on N side of drive to Maes-y-bryn, obscured by woodland.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Probably early C18 and built by Sir Charles Kemeys in conjunction with the enlargement of the house. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey shows no internal structural divisions, but perimeter paths and cross paths.
Exterior
Garden walls of rubble stone 2-3m high enclosing a former kitchen garden approximately 70m square. In the E wall is a narrow inserted doorway with brick jambs. Set back from the NE corner the N wall has a gateway with hammer-dressed stone piers and brick quoins. To its R is a C19 ruined gardener's cottage of rubble stone and brick dressings with a later brick lean-to. The interior is said to retain ruined glasshouses but was inaccessible at the time of inspection.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an early example of a kitchen garden and for group value with Cefn Mably and its garden terraces.
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