Eyarth Hall, a Tudor house dating from 1599 (nprn 282) is located on an east-facing slope south-west of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. It is approached from the north up a drive off a minor road in the valley bottom. At the entrance is a small half-timbered lodge and stone walls topped by large blocks of water-worn local limestone; such rockwork is used as an embellishing feature throughout the garden.
The drive is bounded by stone walls and is flanked on the west by mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland with laurel underplanting, which once formed an outlying informal part of the garden. The drive leads to the farm buildings and also to simple iron gates on the garden boundary, and a small roughly circular forecourt at the north front of the house. What little garden there is to the north of the house is mainly informal with mixed trees, shrubs, and a rockery bank on the west side of the forecourt.

The garden proper lies mainly south of the house and forms a series of terraces, probably contemporary with the house, cut into ground rising steeply to the west. The main terrace, on the same level as the house, is built out over the slope and retained on the south by a substantial retaining wall. It is largely lawn with a gravel path down its west side and a sundial at centre. At the south end of the terrace is a small enclosure formed by a small stone utilitarian outbuilding, the boundary revetment wall and a box hedge. Above is a further sloping terrace with traces of a path. A sloping field above that may once have been part of the garden, perhaps an orchard, now with a track running its length to the north as a rear drive.

Features in the pasture field below (east of) the house and drive suggest that it may once have formed part of the garden. From a gate flanked by stone piers half-way down the drive a rough track can be followed down the field to a further gate before it loops around to the north to the field edge at the drive. Nearby, in a tree-grown area, an enclosed spring feeds, via a stone-lined rill, a small ornamental pond to its north-east.  

Source:
Cadw 1995: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Clwyd, 70-2 (ref: PGW(C)51).

RCAHMW, 20 June 2022