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
23280
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/04/2000
Date of Amendment
25/04/2000
Name of Property
Garden Wall at Twyn yr Hydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Margam
Town
Port Talbot
Locality
Twyn yr Hydd
Easting
281096
Northing
185258
Street Side
Location
Wall enclosing a rectangular garden on the N side of Twyn yr Hydd house.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Walled rectangular garden in Arts and Crafts style. Contemporary with the house, entrance gates and walls, c1893.
Exterior
The wall joins the R side of the L gable of the main range of the house, runs N, then curves round to the W and then to the S for a short distance. Further S there are open views of parkland. Constructed of very narrow sandstone blocks laid dry, with quoins to the openings and where it changes angle. The wall is wide but the upper part is narrower, the offsets covered with stone tiles. Pronounced pitched coping laid with stone tiles. Segmental headed doorways, the coping rising above.
At the S end of the E section of wall is a doorway containing an iron gate with scroll-work. From here, the wall curves round slightly to the E before continuing N where there is a wide recessed bay for a garden seat, with a horizontal window to the rear containing the partial remains of iron tracery. The section of wall at the N end has a doorway in the centre within a wide shallow recess. It also has an iron gate and is flanked by horizontal windows. In front of the gate is a circular stone-lined pool surrounded by a wide band of paving. Further W, at the NW corner of the garden, is a round projection in the style of an angle bastion, possibly for a seat. The wall continues S for a short distance before sloping down to an end pier with pyramidal cap.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a prominent garden feature retaining its character, a key part of a period garden. Group value with Twyn yr Hydd and surrounding structures.
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