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
23607
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/07/2000
Date of Amendment
20/07/2000
Name of Property
Garden Wall at Grovehurst
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Town
Locality
Denbigh -Town
Easting
305439
Northing
366335
Street Side
SE
Location
Defining the western border of the garden of Grovehurst.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Section of garden wall built c1693 in the former pleasure garden of Grove House. In that year Thomas and Ellen Shaw remodelled the Elizabethan Grove House, erecting a grand new facade and making various internal changes. The surviving garden wall is presumably contemporary with this work and, together with a storeyed summer-house/dovecote (and apparently also terraces), originally formed part of an associated late Stuart garden. Grove house itself survives on Vale Street.
The wall surmounts a broad terrace, the upper-most of 2. These terraces are probably in essence part of the late C17 garden layout, although their low rubble revetments are relatively modern. The latter incorporate sections of Renaissance carved sandstone which may relate to the primary Grove House, built in 1574. Lying immediately to the rear of Grovehurst are 2 Elizabethan sandstone capitals in crude composite style; these are similar in type and date and may also have formed part of the original Grove House.
Exterior
L-shaped section of garden wall, of brown brick in loose English Garden Wall bond. The wall is uncoped and is approximately 2.5m high; in places the upper courses have been replaced. The wall extends for approximately 25m defining much of Grovehurst's garden boundary on the R. At its far end (S) is an entrance with modern boarded gate. A few metres to the R of this is a rebuilt section of approximately 2.5m, with square projecting buttresses. At the northern end the wall returns at right-angles to the E, stepping down to a height of approximately 1m.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a surviving stretch of late C17 garden wall belonging to the former late Stuart garden of Grove House.
Group value with the nearby summerhouse/dovecote.
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