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
80759
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/12/2002
Date of Amendment
06/12/2002
Name of Property
Wall of Bodelwyddan Castle Garden with Bothy at W and Gateway at E
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Bodelwyddan
Town
Locality
Bodelwyddan Castle
Easting
299731
Northing
374678
Street Side
Location
About 200m to the SW of Bodelwyddan Castle
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
On the W side of the Bodelwyddan Castle garden an original perimeter wall in limestone survives, which was faced in brickwork internally and considerably heightened probably in the early C19. Integral with this improvement is a 2-storey gardener''s bothy standing against the W side.
Landscaping work was carried out c1910 by Sir Thomas Mawson, considerably altering the gardens. Of the entire circuit of garden walls, only the part on the W side was retained; on the E side Mawson built a low wall so visitors to the garden could enjoy the landscape views across the valley. Mawson described his work as ''''necessary improvements on a difficult site''''. The small Tuscan building on the E side was brought from the N side of the castle; it was in existence in 1820 and was perhaps a gazebo; here Mawson used it as a gateway.
Exterior
A stone wall about 3m in height, now visible only on the W side, widended and doubled in height in brickwork. The wall is without buttresses and has a thin stone coping. Attached to the wall on the W side is a gardener''s bothy of 2-storeys in brickwork, and a stone-walled paddock behind it.
On the E side, on the line of the C20 low perimeter wall which completes the enclosure, is a Tuscan gateway with 4 columns and an entablature with a wrought iron gate to its rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of the setting of the Castle, an original walled garden as remodelled by Sir T H Mawson.
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