Introduction
The sloping garden is landscaped with granite steps, a broad terrace, lawn and formal borders. A switch-back drive approaches the National Library of Wales. There is an extensive rockery between the caretaker's cottage and the drive, which is principally constructed with an artificial concrete-based conglomerate.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
01970 632800Website
https://www.library.wales/Access contact details
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=52
Directions
Travel north-east out of Aberystwyth on the A487. Right turn, signposted, half way up the hill.
- Associated People
- Features & Designations
Designations
CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
- Reference: Reference PGW(Dy)47(CER) part of
- Grade: II*
Style
Formal
Features
- Library (featured building)
- Description: This is an imposing classical building of Portland stone and granite, designed in 1909, and completed by Charles Holden in Art Deco style in 1937.
- Earliest Date:
- Latest Date:
- Steps
- Description: Granite steps.
- Garden Terrace
- Lawn
- Border
- Description: Formal borders.
- Drive
- Rockery
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Parks, Gardens And Urban Spaces
Survival
Extant
Open to the public
Yes
Civil Parish
Aberystwyth
- References
References
- CADW, Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire (Cardiff: CADW, 2002) Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire
- Palmer, C., David, P, Laidlaw, R., {Historic parks and Gardens in Ceredigion}, (Talybont, 2006) Historic Parks and Gardens in Ceredigion
- Palmer, Caroline, {The gardens of the National Library of Wales}, Winter 2003, pp 12-16 Newsletter of the Friends of the National Library of Wales