Kitchen Garden Wall and Glass House 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 and glass house.

Kitchen Garden Wall and Glass House at Twyn yr Hydd

WRENN ID
strange-pilaster-falcon
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 and glass house
Address
Kitchen Garden Wall and Glass House at Twyn yr Hydd, Margam
OS grid reference
SS 811 853
Coordinates
51.55422, -3.71599
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Kitchen Garden Wall and Glass House at Twyn yr Hydd is a Grade II listed structure. The garden wall is made of red brick and runs from north to south. It rises slightly towards the north end, where it features stone coping. At this end, the wall curves outward before returning back to the north. The lean-to glass house faces west and is built on a high brick plinth that supports a single row of upright glazed panels. These panels are divided into four-pane opening lights, which have an iron opening mechanism behind them. Above, there is a pitched glazed roof with wooden glazing bars that are one pane wide, featuring overlapping panes of glass. The top tier also consists of opening lights, again with an iron opening mechanism inside. There are half-lit doors at each end of the glass house. In front of the glass house is a cold frame, which has a low brick wall at the front and wooden glazing bars, but currently lacks glass. At the rear of the garden wall, there is a brick lean-to with a corrugated metal roof, which includes four late 20th-century four-light windows and double doors to the left. Inside, there is a central glazed partition on a brick plinth that contains a doorway. A concrete path runs down the center, with staging on either side, and the iron opening mechanisms are well preserved.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Wall and Glass House 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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