Kitchen garden walls, pavilion and terrace at Maes Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 2002. Garden structure.

Kitchen garden walls, pavilion and terrace at Maes Manor

WRENN ID
scarred-wall-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 2002
Type
Garden structure
Address
Kitchen garden walls, pavilion and terrace at Maes Manor, Blackwood
OS grid reference
ST 174 988
Coordinates
51.68244, -3.1955
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The kitchen garden at Maes Manor is rectangular in shape and features a terrace at the south end along with a southeast pavilion. It is enclosed by rubble stone walls topped with saddle-back tile coping, and the inner face is made of brick. The northwest and northeast corners of the garden are curved, although part of the wall has been removed at the northeast. The east and west sides of the garden rise in steps from south to north, each with a doorway featuring an elliptical arch and a replaced door. The lower south wall, which faces the terrace, includes central square freestone piers topped with ball finials, supporting double iron gates with an overthrow. There is also a wider opening on the west side.

At the external southeast corner stands a tall, square, single-storey pavilion constructed of rubble stone, topped with a hipped stone-tile roof and an apex finial. The pavilion features hooded mullioned windows made of reconstituted stone. The entrance on the west side faces the raised terrace, with a doorway to the left that has a moulded drip stone and a replaced door. To the right of this doorway is a 2-light window. The south side of the pavilion has a 3-light window, while the east side has a 2-light window that is offset to the left. Stone steps are adjacent to the east wall. The south terrace includes central stone steps in its south revetment and extends further out to the southwest angle, where it has low splayed buttresses made of snecked stone and retains part of a former open balustrade of reconstituted stone.

Local climate

Kitchen garden walls, pavilion and terrace at Maes Manor sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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