Kitchen Garden Walls including Vinery Glasshouse is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 February 1975. Garden wall and glasshouse. 2 related planning applications.
Kitchen Garden Walls including Vinery Glasshouse
- WRENN ID
- waning-landing-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1975
- Type
- Garden wall and glasshouse
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The site includes kitchen garden walls and a vinery glasshouse. The high rubble stone walls have flat dressed stone coping. The interior face of much of the south-facing wall is faced in red brick to encourage heat retention for climbing plants. A short 20th-century linking wall connects to the almshouses, running at an angle before turning westward and joining another section slightly set forward. This section has angle quoins, a ventilation slit, and small recesses, indicating it was formerly part of a farm building. The wall then changes angle slightly towards the northwest, where it again has a red brick facing, continuing to the rear of the vinery and a maze. It returns to the south at the northwest angle of the maze and continues southward, broken by a pair of low double gates between plain square piers. The wall then dog-legs and continues to Park House at a lower level.
A wall extends at right angles from the brick-faced wall towards the south, joining the west end of the vinery glasshouse. This wall is of narrow rubble with flat stone coping and has a doorway at the north end with a segmental stone head, and another doorway with a four-centred arched stone head and dressed, chamfered jambs; both are boarded over. The wall returns eastward as the rear wall of the vinery. Quoins to the angle, ventilation slits, and blocked openings suggest that this wall was formerly part of a farm building and has a flat stone coping.
The long vinery glasshouse has a low brick plinth and a short upright section of open timber panels. Although the glazing is missing, the internal ironwork for opening the windows remains. It has a pitched lean-to roof with vertical iron struts that once supported the glazing, also now missing, with the iron opening mechanisms still extant, now supporting vines. The brick plinth returns to the north where the doors would have been located. At the west end of the rear wall is a blocked boarded door in a heavy concrete surround, and a similar window, both probably of late 20th century date. At the east end, the wall turns sharply to the northwest and then curves to form the front wall of two rear lean-tos. These are single-storey, of roughly coursed stone with corrugated roofs, with full height openings and 20th-century windows with stone or concrete-rendered jambs.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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