Introduction
Glan-y-Mawddach is an early-20th-century woodland and formal terraced garden, associated with a house of the same date, situated on the Mawddach estuary. The garden is divided into compartments of different character, all linked by paths and richly planted with trees, shrubs and hedges.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
01443 336000Website
http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/
- History
Period
Early 20th Century (1901-1932)
- Features & Designations
Designations
CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
- Reference: PGW(Gd)62(GWY)
- Grade: II*
National Park
- Reference: Snowdonia
CADW Register of Listed Buildings in Wales
- Reference: Former coachhouse and stables
- Grade: II
Features
- Vase
- Description: The terraces are decorated with terracotta bowls and reconstituted stone vases and bowls.
- Pergola
- Description: A wooden, L-shaped pergola around a pool on one of the terraces.
- Gate
- Description: Blue, wrought-iron gates with stone piers
- Summerhouse
- House (featured building)
- Description: The house was built in the 1820s and altered and extended in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
- Earliest Date:
- Latest Date:
- Garden Terrace
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Period
Early 20th Century (1901-1932)
Survival
Extant
Open to the public
Yes
Civil Parish
Barmouth
- References
References
- Cadw and ICOMOS UK, 'Glan-y-Mawddach' in {Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Conwy, Gwynedd & The Isle of Anglesey} (Cardiff: Cadw, 1998), pp. 196-9 Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Conwy, Gwynedd & The Isle of Anglesey
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 'Glan-y-Mawddach, Garden, Barmouth',