Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
22/09/1997
Date of Amendment
22/09/1997
Name of Property
Walls to inner and outer gardens on E side of Vaynol Old Hall
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
The small rectangular inner walled garden adjoins the E gable and rear wing of the hall. An arch leads to the slightly offset outer walled garden, further to the E.
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
History
The inner, rectangular walled garden probably dates from the full development of the Old Hall at the end of the C17. The circular central pool is probably of the first half of the C18, when the garden was being embellished before the move to the new Vaynol Hall, and altered in the C19. The outer garden, probably first intended as a kitchen garden, is probably C18.
Exterior
The inner garden is rectangular and sunk below the ground level to that of the service basement of the Old Hall. The N approach has 5 steps down, with a hedge and revetment wall, the wall being approximately 4m high to the S and 2-5m to the E with a central voussoired archway. At the centre, opposite the service door, is an oval pool set flush with the surrounding garden, and with a fountain at the centre; a lobed bowl on cross supports.
Further E, the outer garden has roughly coursed rubble walls, approximately 4m high and battered externally, the outer corners rounded, and with a cart entrance flanked by plain capped gate piers at the S end of the E side. Later boarded gates. A lean-to shelter extends across the garden on the S side.
Reason for designation
Included as important elements in the setting of the Grade I Vaynol Old Hall.
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