Kitchen garden wall and attached outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Garden wall and outbuildings.

Kitchen garden wall and attached outbuildings

WRENN ID
western-spindle-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 May 2000
Type
Garden wall and outbuildings
Address
Kitchen garden wall and attached outbuildings, Penrhyn Park, Llandygai
OS grid reference
SH 603 724
Coordinates
53.23047, -4.09415
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The kitchen garden wall and attached outbuildings date from the 18th century and enclose a large, slightly skewed square-shaped kitchen garden that measures approximately 120 meters by 120 meters, with an additional irregularly-shaped area to the south. The stone east wall of the main section stands about 4.5 meters high, while the stone west wall is slightly taller and features slate coping. The main entrance, located on the west side, has lower stone piers. The north wall, also made of stone, reaches approximately 5 meters in height, and the south wall, which is roughly the same height, has a series of brick and slate-roofed outbuildings attached to its northern side. The outbuildings at the eastern end appear to be older than the others. Inside, several internal walls remain, including part of an unusual fruit wall along the southern side of two northern sections; this fruit wall is about 2 meters high and constructed from thin slate slabs slotted into metal uprights. The wall of the irregularly-shaped southern section is also made of stone, lined with brick on the north and west sides, reaching a maximum height of 2 meters and topped with slate coping. A modern gateway with wrought-iron gates provides the entrance to Penrhyn. Although the structure has undergone many alterations, lean-to brick and stone outbuildings still exist on the outside of the west wall of the main garden, both to the north and south of the main entrance.

Local climate

Kitchen garden wall and attached outbuildings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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