Dutch Garden walls and terrace at Bodysgallen Hall, including Mulberry Cottage & bothy is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. Garden wall, bothy, cottage.
Dutch Garden walls and terrace at Bodysgallen Hall, including Mulberry Cottage & bothy
- WRENN ID
- western-rood-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Garden wall, bothy, cottage
- OS grid reference
- SH 799 792
- Coordinates
- 53.29655, -3.80212
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Dutch Garden walls and terrace at Bodysgallen Hall date from the 19th century and enclose a high rubble-walled rectangular garden measuring approximately 30 meters by 20 meters, topped with renewed slate coping. The northwest wall is higher at the back and features saddleback coping. It includes a stone-paved upper terrace with a parapet made of large stone blocks. An entrance in the northwest wall has a concrete lintel and a 20th-century gate. At the southwest end of the upper terrace, there are stone steps leading down to the main area of the garden.
The upper terrace extends around to the northeast side, where additional stone steps provide access to the main garden area. The northeast wall is constructed in two phases; the uphill end has a hipped canopy over an opening that includes wooden seats on the outer side of the wall. The downhill end, which is from the 19th century, forms the rear wall of a bothy located at the outer southeast end of the garden. The southeast wall at this end also features saddleback coping and includes an inserted gate with brick jambs and pebble-dashed reveals, granting access to a late 19th-century greenhouse located here. The southwest wall, which is shared with the kitchen garden, has a renewed lintel above a doorway at the southwest end.
The two-storey lean-to bothy is built of rubble stone and has a slate roof. It features a boarded door beneath a segmental brick head on the end wall. The side wall has a two-light casement window under a brick segmental head and another two-light casement window below the eaves. The rear wall, facing the kitchen garden, has a replacement glazed door under a 19th-century brick segmental head.
In the northwest corner of the garden is a building now known as Mulberry Cottage, which faces the kitchen garden. This is a single-storey rubble-stone cottage with a hipped slate roof. The southeast gable end features a recessed two-light mullioned window, flanked by longitudinal recesses in the main garden wall. The front and rear of the cottage have been restored, with the rear showcasing two eight-pane horned sash windows under earlier segmental brick heads, along with an inserted glazed door to the left of center.
Local climate
Dutch Garden walls and terrace at Bodysgallen Hall, including Mulberry Cottage & bothy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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