Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


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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