Garden Walls at Gwaenynog, including Mr Macgregor's Potting Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2000. Garden wall, potting shed.
Garden Walls at Gwaenynog, including Mr Macgregor's Potting Shed
- WRENN ID
- endless-nave-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 July 2000
- Type
- Garden wall, potting shed
- Address
- Garden Walls at Gwaenynog, including Mr Macgregor's Potting Shed, Denbigh
- OS grid reference
- SJ 034 654
- Coordinates
- 53.17746, -3.44618
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The garden walls at Gwaenynog, dating from the late 18th century, enclose a kitchen garden and include a potting shed known as Mr Macgregor's Potting Shed. The walls form an irregular four-sided plot, constructed of red-brown brick laid in English garden wall bond, with flat stone copings on top. They stand at full height, varying between 2.8 meters and 3.5 meters. A wide segmentally-arched entrance is located in the center of the eastern wall, featuring limestone imposts and key, along with 19th-century boarded gates that were sketched by Beatrix Potter.
At the southern corner, where the southern and eastern walls meet, there is a three-bay carthouse block with a slate roof and plain limestone piers, which has an angled southern gable and modern boarded doors on the left bay. The northern wall includes a short section of cross wall, while the southern wall has an iron half-gate leading to a service court. To the right of this gate, there is a section of limestone rubble wall backed by a lean-to stable block that faces the yard and has seven plain openings.
Adjoining the stable block at the southwest corner is Mr Macgregor's Potting Shed, a long, low rectangular building designed in the Rustic Gothick style. It is built of limestone rubble with a slate roof and tiled ridge, featuring a recessed old boarded door on the west side. The garden-facing gable end has a rectangular 12-pane sash window on the ground floor, with an arched, multi-pane Gothic window above, showcasing elongated stone voussoirs and an opening metal casement section.
Inside Mr Macgregor's Potting Shed, there is a plain beamed ceiling on the ground floor, a slate floor, and a ladder stair leading to the upper loft. The shed also contains a primary crude stone fireplace with a grate.
Local climate
Garden Walls at Gwaenynog, including Mr Macgregor's Potting Shed sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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