Bothy Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 March 1998. Garden enclosure.

Bothy Garden

WRENN ID
errant-lime-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 March 1998
Type
Garden enclosure
Address
Bothy Garden, Leighton Park, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
OS grid reference
SJ 243 044
Coordinates
52.63258, -3.11917
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Bothy Garden is a walled garden, measuring approximately 90 by 90 meters, which is divided into four equal quadrants by an east-west cross wall and a north-south terrace wall. The walls are constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring saddleback copings. In the external wall, there are doorways with 4-centred arches, some of which have boarded doors. The east-west cross wall contains four similar doorways. In the northeast quadrant, the cross wall also features a sham fireplace beneath a shaped gable, which has ashlar copings and two polygonal chimneys, one of which has a tall patterned flue. The north-south cross wall includes a low parapet and four flights of stone steps, each terminating in piers with flat caps, likely intended for statues. Additionally, the northeast quadrant contains the remains of glasshouses, while the southeast quadrant has the remains of a timber-framed summer house.

Local climate

Bothy Garden receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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