Introduction
Machen House has a mid-19th-century garden with a well-preserved mock-Gothic structure which includes castellated boundary walls and mock turrets. Remnants of the informal garden include two naturalistic ponds.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
01443 336000Website
http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/
- Features & Designations
Designations
Conservation Area
- Reference: Lower Machen
CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
- Reference: PGW(Gt)32
- Grade: II
Features
- Summerhouse
- Description: A summerhouse with painted iron columns.
- Pond
- Description: There are two artificial naturalistic ponds in the garden. One of them was designed and planted in Chinese style.
- Fountain
- Description: An original iron fountain situated in the middle of one of the ponds.
- Boundary Wall
- Description: Castellated boundary walls.
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Extant
- References
References
- Cadw and ICOMOS UK, 'Lower Machen House' in {Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Gwent} (Cardiff: Cadw, 1994), pp. 90-1 Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Gwent
-
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 'Machen House, Garden, Lower Machen',