Walls to Kitchen Garden at Merthyr Mawr House is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Garden wall.
Walls to Kitchen Garden at Merthyr Mawr House
- WRENN ID
- outer-transept-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1999
- Type
- Garden wall
- OS grid reference
- SS 889 780
- Coordinates
- 51.49008, -3.60038
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The walls surrounding the kitchen garden at Merthyr Mawr House are high and feature brick inner faces with random rubble outer faces, except for the southern wall, which has stone inner and brick outer faces. There are no internal dividing walls. The northern and southern walls each have doorways on the western side at the back of the stable block; these doorways have segmental heads, with a boarded door on the northern side and a cast iron gate on the southern side.
Against the northern inner wall, there are brick foundations of a former peach house and a vinery with vine arches. To the right of the vinery, there is an additional doorway. On the outside of the northern wall, there is a lean-to stove house made of random rubble with a slate roof, which contains a fireplace and a flue leading to a cavity in the wall. Further east, there is another lean-to bothy and stove house constructed of rubble stone, featuring a roof of renewed slates and corrugated plastic.
The eastern wall has, on its outer side, two small lean-to pigsties with walled pens. In the southeast corner, there is an attached rubble stone wall, and set back from this wall, the southern garden wall has a doorway with a segmental head and a cast iron gate. Against the southern wall, there is a greenhouse on a brick plinth with vine arches, featuring an asymmetrical gable made of curved cast iron trusses and curved glass. A door has been inserted in the southern wall of the greenhouse under a segmental head.
Local climate
Walls to Kitchen Garden at Merthyr Mawr House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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