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Blackaldern (also known as Blackalder)

Introduction

Blackaldern is a well-preserved garden, featuring ericaceous and other plants within the woodland garden.

Although there are few structural components, there is an interesting and unusual collection of ericaceous and other plants within the woodland garden. These include many unusual, early introductions of rhododendrons which are of great horticultural and historical interest.
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Features & Designations

Designations

  • CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales

  • Reference: PGW(Dy)27(PEM)
  • Grade: II

  • Tree Preservation Order

  • CADW Register of Listed Buildings in Wales

  • Reference: house and coach house
  • Grade: II

Features

  • House (featured building)
  • Description: The house is mainly a two-storey block with a former kitchen wing to the north-west.
  • Stable Block
  • Description: Recently renovated stable block and yard.
  • Drive
  • Planting
  • Description: There are many unusual specimens of rhododendron. The seeds are thought to have been brought from Tibet in the late-19th century by the house's then-owner, William Allen.
  • Kitchen Garden
  • Description: Walled enclosure, thought to be the former kitchen garden.
Key Information

Type

Formal Garden

Purpose

Ornamental Garden

Principal Building

House

Survival

Extant

Hectares

4

Civil Parish

Narberth

References

References

  • CADW, {Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire} (Cardiff: CADW, 2002) 160
  • Whittle, E., {The Historic Gardens of Wales} (Cardiff: CADW, 1992) 68