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.
Date of Designation
14/02/2001
Date of Amendment
14/02/2001
Name of Property
Walls of Walled Garden and attached Bothies and Cottage at Piercefield Park
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Locality
Piercefield Park
Location
About 200m north west of the ruins of Piercefield House.
History
A late C18 walled garden with its associated bothies and gardener's cottage. It is described in the 1793 sale particulars. For further history of the estate see Piercefield House.
Exterior
A very large rectangular enclosure of sandstone rubble walling about 2.3m in height rising to 3.5m on the north wall, which supports the bothies and did support the greenhouses. The wall is much overgrown with ivy but it survives complete with a number of doorways and a break for carts at the north west corner. The range of bothies along the outside of the north wall have rubble walling but no roofs. The cottage, which is at the north east corner facing south into the garden is red brick and two storeys but is now much damaged. It has a central door and two windows on each floor with an oculus above, but the roof is now missing.
Interior
The interiors of the bothies and the cottage have been destroyed.
Reason for designation
Included as a late C18 walled garden which, despite damage, remains a significant component of this nationally important historic landscape and has group value with the adjacent barn and the ruins of Piercefield House.
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