Garden walls, terraces, potting shed and peach house at Voelas is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1998. Garden structure. 1 related planning application.
Garden walls, terraces, potting shed and peach house at Voelas
- WRENN ID
- fallen-rubble-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1998
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Garden walls, terraces, potting shed and peach house at Voelas, Pentrefoelas, LL24 0SU
- OS grid reference
- SH 851 514
- Coordinates
- 53.04834, -3.71475
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The garden walls, terraces, potting shed, and peach house at Voelas are notable features of the kitchen garden. The walls are constructed from rubble stonework, with part of the inner side faced in brick. They form a rectangle that opens to the south, bordered by the river. Access to the garden is available from a pathway around the 'bothy' and through the buildings in the service yard. The walls stand approximately 3 meters high and are capped. A later opening has been created on the eastern side.
The upper terrace features a central square recess with steps leading down to a raised walkway, and a perron staircase that descends further to a randomly paved crosswalk on the third terrace. Additional steps from this level lead down to the main garden area, which is enhanced with cross hedging.
The peach house is located against the eastern end of the upper (northern) wall. It consists of lightweight T-section ferrous members, approximately 40x40mm, that curve from a timber lower section, which can be opened, set on a low brick wall, to a higher level against the northern wall. Each member's leg has regular piercings for a continuous 3-4mm wire, to which thin glass panes, shaped with a curved profile at the lower edge, are attached using metal clips.
Additionally, a stone-built potting shed is integrated into the bank on the outer side of the walled garden. It features a hipped slate roof, two ridge stacks, and a central louvred ventilator, along with boarded end doors. The southern wall of the potting shed is part of the northern garden wall.
Local climate
Garden walls, terraces, potting shed and peach house at Voelas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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