Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
02/03/1998
Date of Amendment
02/03/1998
Name of Property
Walled Garden at Cefnamwlch
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Situated some 120m NE of the main house of Cefnamwlch.
History
Probably late C18 to early C19 walls and gates to roughly square walled garden at Cefnamwlch, originally a kitchen garden.
Exterior
Walls to walled garden some 65m by 75m. Rebuilt entrance gate piers with gadrooned urns and fine scroll-crested wrought iron gates. Broad main gate with side panels, all with scrolled mid-rail, lock made by J & C McGloughlin, Dublin. Walls are ramped down each side, low wall left, higher right. Walls are curved at the angles, and at top right corner there is a square-headed opening with fine wrought iron scrolled gate. Left side wall ramped down and then up to 2 rebuilt gatepiers with large ashlar pineapple finials and wrought-iron gates.
Reason for designation
Part of a formal walled garden with fine ironwork to gates; the garden forms a key element in the layout of the estate at Cefnamwlch.
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