LLANNERCH HALL, GARDEN, TRENANT

Site Details

NPRN
266313
Map Reference
SJ07SE
Grid Reference
SJ0537572293
Unitary (Local) Authority
Denbighshire
Old County
Denbighshire
Community
Trefnant
Type of Site
GARDEN
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
Post Medieval

Site Description

1. Parklands & Gardens of Wales No:PGW(C)41

2. Site of one of the most famous Welsh historic gardens, an Italianate terraced garden created by Mutton Davies c.1660, overlain by 1920's garden designed by Percy Cane. Source: Cadw Register of Parks and Gardens in Wales. There are still earthworks of the formal terraced garden with a canal, also a later woodland garden and a much later walled garden. This is the site which produced one of the best-known bird's eye view oil paintings of c 1660. 2003.12.16/RCAHMW/SLE & CSB

3. Park/gardens associated with: Llannerch Hall (Nprn27410) and Includes Garden temple (Nprn23049).
RCAHMW AP94-CS 1576-9
RCAHMW AP945168/64-70

4. This garden is depicted on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of Denbighshire VIII, sheet 4 (1899). Its main elements on that map include kitchen garden, carriage drive, walled garden, woodland, terrace, kennels, deerpark, pavilions, pond, parkland, lodge, haw haw, conservatory and a possible summerhouse. C.H. Nicholas, RCAHMW, 15th August 2006.