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
26997
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/10/2002
Date of Amendment
21/10/2002
Name of Property
Grotto in Wenvoe Castle Park
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Barry
Town
Locality
Wenvoe Castle Park
Easting
311764
Northing
170973
Street Side
Location
SW of the former castle in a tongue of woodland extending N from Bears Wood, close to the lake.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The Park at Wenvoe was largely the creation of Sir Edmund Thomas, third baronet, between 1733 when he inherited the estate and his death in 1767. The most interesting part of this mid C18 park is Bears Wood, laid out in Rococo style with intersecting rides leading to circular clearings, large at centre. In the tongue of the wood at the N end the estate map of 1762 shows a Grotto, serpentine Canal and a Green.
Exterior
The grotto of stone rubble with roughly dressed quoins, partly covered by an earth mound, consists of a chamber with a rusticated roughly rendered interior, entered through segmental arches at front and back; stone vault.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a very rare example of this type of C18 park and garden architecture in Wales.
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