Eastern Walled Kitchen Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 1998. A 18th century Garden.
Eastern Walled Kitchen Garden
- WRENN ID
- inner-lime-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1998
- Type
- Garden
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Eastern Walled Kitchen Garden, Glynllifon, Llandwrog
- OS grid reference
- SH 455 554
- Coordinates
- 53.07369, -4.3068
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Eastern Walled Kitchen Garden is an 18th-century structure, likely dating to around 1751, although a slate plaque incorrectly attributes its creation to Sir John Wynn in 1761; it was actually Sir Thomas Wynn who held the baronetcy at that time. Originally divided into four unequal sections, with the southern sections being larger, the garden walls are constructed of rubble on the outer face and English garden-wall bond red brick on the inner face, topped with slate coping. The walls are approximately 3 meters high, with indications that they have been heightened on the north side.
On the west side, the wall adjoins modern machinery workshops and includes a brick pointed arch with a boarded gate. A small round arched doorway with a stone surround is located near the north end, with a blocked opening almost at the corner with the north side. The remains of a boiler house, retaining its red brick chimney stack, stand against the north side of the garden. At the north-east corner is a derelict area featuring three pointed arches, the central one being tall and designed for cart access, surmounted by a plaque inscribed "Victoria Jubilee 1897." The wall runs down the east side, roughly parallel to a farm track.
The south end wall runs parallel to the cold frames behind the main complex and faces a small gardeners’ cottage, bearing an inscribed slate plaque reading "This walled garden was made by Sir John Wynn Bart in the year 1761.” A Peach House is situated against the north wall, restored in 1991, with a lean-to Plum House attached to its left. Further south is a melon pit, with renewed woodwork and glass, but retaining original ironwork, pipework, slate flooring, and humidity trays for the hot pipes; it was designed by Foster and Pearson. A sundial has been relocated from its original central position.
A former underground tunnel linked the kitchen garden to a neighboring garden to the west. The tunnel entrance, located midway along the west side, is under a segmental brick arch with voussoirs and arch ring. The tunnel is segmental vaulted and faced in yellow brick, turning at a right angle to the south before ascending into the next garden.
Local climate
Eastern Walled Kitchen Garden sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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Nearby listed buildings
- Gardener's Cottage and attached archway to south of Kitchen Gardens
- Palm House including former Eagle House
- Inner arched entrance to courtyard between Palm House and Workshops
- Machinery Workshops to north-west of Stables at Glynllifon
- Rubble-walled trackway to north of service drive to west of Glynllifon House
- Footbridge over service drive to west of Glynllifon House
- Workshops
- Rubble-walled rear service drive to west of Glynllifon House
- Stable Courtyard at Glynllifon
- Fountain Pool to east of Stable Courtyard