Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
25/04/2000
Date of Amendment
25/04/2000
Name of Property
Garden Wall at Twyn yr Hydd
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Location
Wall enclosing a rectangular garden on the N side of Twyn yr Hydd house.
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
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.
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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