Introduction
The small park and garden at Tower is associated with a house of great historical importance with a 15th-century tower as its core. In the gardens there are traces of 17th-century layout and other features from then onwards, including informal plantings of trees and shrubs.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
01443 336000Website
http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/Owners
Charles & Mairi Wynne-Eyton
Other Websites
- Features & Designations
Designations
CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
- Reference: PGW(C) 46
- Grade: II
Features
- Sundial
- Description: The sundial was brought from Leeswood Hall. It is cubical with a ball finial.
- Fortified House (featured building)
- Description: Tower is constructed around a mid-15th-century tower. It had a major gothic remodelling in the late-18th century.
- Lake
- Description: A lake in the garden, part of which has a rectilinear outline. This part of the lake may have medieval origins. In the late-19th century the lake was in the park.
- Key Information
Type
Estate
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Extant
- References
References
- Cadw and ICOMOS UK, 'Tower' in {Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Clwyd} (Cardiff: Cadw, 1995), pp. 248-50 Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Clwyd
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 'Tower Garden, Mold',