3342

 

II  

Designated  

08/10/1981  

05/05/2006  

Kitchen garden walls at Bodysgallen Hall  

 

Conwy  

Conwy  

 

Bodysgallen  

279930  

379208  

 

On lower ground SE of the house.  

Domestic  

 

Bodysgallen was built in 1620 by Robert Wynne. His grandson, also Robert, added the NW wing in the late C17, and his son Dr Hugh Wynne added the NE wing in 1730. The house passed by marriage to the Mostyn family in 1776 and subsequently became a dower house. Lady Augusta Mostyn gave the house to her son Henry, who enlarged the house in 1884, 1894 and 1905. It has been a hotel since 1981. Bodysgallen had extensive gardens by the C18, including probably 2 of the kitchen garden walls, which are shown on the 1846 Tithe map. The original garden, in 2 sections, was narrower than its present extent. The SW and NW walls of each section were added in the mid C19 and are first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.  

Two conjoined walled gardens. Walls are approximately 3m high. The main garden is approximately 80m x 50m, but narrower to the NE end. It has mid C19 hand-moulded brick NW and SW walls with replacement coping, earlier rubble-stone SE wall with some boulder footings and weathered and overgrown coping above a slate course, and NE wall shared with the Dutch garden (listed separately). The NW wall has a single entrance with pointed arch. The SW wall, which is heightened in late C19 brick, has a pointed entrance with studded door. The SE wall also has a single pointed entrance. The NE wall has a renewed lintel to a doorway at the SE end. The outer SW section of the garden, approximately 50m square, has rubble-stone walls. The NW wall is curved and has a stone pointed doorway. The SW wall is irregular, on higher ground, and incorporates an alcove of reconstituted stone which has Tuscan pilasters and entablature, with scribed roughcast interior. The SE wall has 2 stone segmental-headed doorways next to the main garden, one with studded door, and another similar doorway at the SW end.  

 

Listed for its special interest as well-preserved kitchen garden walls, and for group value with garden and other listed items at Bodysgallen.