Garden Wall at Twyn yr Hydd is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 2000. Garden wall.

Garden Wall at Twyn yr Hydd

WRENN ID
sheer-ember-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 April 2000
Type
Garden wall
Address
Garden Wall at Twyn yr Hydd, Margam
OS grid reference
SS 810 852
Coordinates
51.55364, -3.71643
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The garden wall at Twyn yr Hydd is a Grade II listed structure that connects to the right side of the left gable of the main house. It runs north, then curves west and south for a short distance, offering open views of the surrounding parkland. The wall is made of very narrow sandstone blocks laid dry, featuring quoins at the openings and where the angles change. It is wide at the base, tapering towards the top, with offsets covered in stone tiles and a pronounced pitched coping also laid with stone tiles.

There are segmental-headed doorways in the wall, with the coping rising above them. At the south end of the eastern section of the wall, there is a doorway with an iron gate that has decorative scroll-work. From this point, the wall curves slightly east before continuing north, where there is a wide recessed bay designed for a garden seat, featuring a horizontal window at the back with partial remains of iron tracery.

The northern section of the wall includes a centrally located doorway within a wide shallow recess, flanked by horizontal windows and featuring another iron gate. In front of this gate is a circular stone-lined pool surrounded by a wide band of paving. Further west, at the northwest corner of the garden, there is a round projection resembling an angle bastion, likely intended for seating. The wall continues south for a short distance before sloping down to an end pier capped with a pyramidal top.

Local climate

Garden Wall at Twyn yr Hydd sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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