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
22998
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/03/2000
Date of Amendment
15/03/2000
Name of Property
Walled garden at Clytha Park
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanarth
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Clytha
Easting
336844
Northing
209143
Street Side
Location
Situated some 200m NE of Clytha Park to left of track to Chapel Farm
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Walled garden to Clytha Park, later C18, built for William Jones Sr of Clytha House, the predecessor to the present Clytha Park house which was built in 1824-8 for William Jones' nephew. Part of estate improvements of the late 1780s probably designed by John Davenport, who designed the Clytha Castle folly. Marked on 1845 tithe map.
Exterior
Walled garden, irregular plan of straight N wall and E and W walls running slightly inwards to curved S wall. Tudor arched entries on N and SE sides. Red brick walls with splayed base, buttress piers, and stone flat coping. Bricks laid one course of headers to 3 of stretchers. Lean-to stone outbuilding against outside N wall, greenhouse against inside N wall.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial and impressively walled garden.
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