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Garden walls, terraces, potting shed and peach house at Voelas

A Grade II Listed Building in Pentrefoelas, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0483 / 53°2'53"N

Longitude: -3.7147 / 3°42'53"W

OS Eastings: 285150

OS Northings: 351493

OS Grid: SH851514

Mapcode National: GBR 67.CXTP

Mapcode Global: WH66B.XM8Y

Plus Code: 9C5R27XP+84

Entry Name: Garden walls, terraces, potting shed and peach house at Voelas

Listing Date: 19 October 1998

Last Amended: 19 October 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20589

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300020589

Location: The kitchen garden at Voelas lies E of the house and outbuildings on land sloping gently to the Afon Conwy. The peach-house is against the the N wall.

County: Conwy

Town: Pentrefoelas

Community: Pentrefoelas

Community: Pentrefoelas

Locality: Voelas

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

The garden dates largely from the works associated with the mid C19 house built 1856-1858 for Charles Wynn-Finch at Voelas, and after the diversion of the Holyhead Road away from the park which took place in March 1861. It served both as a kitchen garden and the upper part as a pleasure garden for the house, and continues to function as such for the present house built in 1957-1961, designed by Clough Williams Ellis.

Exterior

The kitchen garden walls are of rubble stonework, faced in part on the inner side with brick. They describe a rectangle open to the S where the garden is limited by the river. Access is from a pathway around the 'bothy' and through the buildings around the service yard. The walls are approximately 3m high and coped. A later gap has been cut through the E side.

The upper terrace has a central square embayment with steps down to a raised walk, and a perron staircase leading further down to a random-paved cross walk on the third terrace. Further steps from this level lead down to the body of the garden, which is furnished with cross hedging.

The peach house is set against the E end of the upper (N) wall. It is formed of very lightweight T-section ferrous members approximately 40x40mm spanning in a curve from timber openable lower section set on a dwarf brick wall, to high level against the N wall. The leg of each member is pierced at regular intervals for a continuous 3-4mm wire, to which thin glass panes, cut to a curved profile at the lower edge, are hung on metal clips.

A stone-built potting shed is set into the bank on the outer side of the walled garden. It has a hipped slate roof, two ridge stacks and central louvred ventilator; boarded end doors. The S wall forms an integral part of the N garden wall.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good and reasonably complete example of a C19 kitchen garden including the exceptional peach house.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Carriage house at Voelas
    The carriage house forms the S side of the service courtyard, E of the house, and backs on to the walled garden.
  • II Laundry, stable and bothy at Voelas
    The building containing the laundry, garage, stable and bothy is set transversely at the E end of the terrace across the main S front of the house.
  • II Summer House at Voelas
    The summer house is built in with the wall between the house and the stable yard, approximately 20m from the house.
  • II* Voelas
    Voelas Estate lies on the W edge of the community, W of Pentrefoelas. The house stands in its own parkland overlooking the picturesque narrow valley of the Afon Conwy.
  • II Driveway bridge at Voelas (partly in Bro Garmon community)
    The drive to Voelas crosses a bridge over the Nant-y-coed running N-S and forming the community boundary with Bro Garmon immediately to W of the house.
  • II Ty'r Peg
    Prominently located on the roadside some 300m W of the junction of the A5 with the B 4407 to Ysbyty Ifan.
  • II Pont Rhyd-y-Dyfrgi
    Spanning the Afon Conwy at the SE border of the community immediately N of the A5 and carrying the metalled drive to Voelas.
  • II Pont Rhyd-y-Dyfrgi
    Spans the border between the Bro Garmon and Ysbyty Ifan communities.

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