Golden Grove, a sixteenth or seventeenth-century stone house (nprn 35385), is located a short distance to the south-east of Prestatyn. Its grounds are notable for the historical interest of their Edwardian terraced garden featuring Yew topiary (86576), for the remains of a seventeenth-century walled garden (700122), and for the historical association with Lady Aberconwy, the daughter of Henry Pochin of Bodnant (266310).
A small area of parkland extends onto higher ground to the north and north-west of the gardens, and south towards the public road.
The house is approached from the the south-east at an entrance and lodge on the Prestatyn-Llanasa road. The drive, lined with a sycamore avenue, passes a large field known as 'the park' to the forecourt. A secondary drive once branched off to the stables. Aside from the avenue the trees there are also a small clump of beech, woodland belts east of the drive and mixed woodland along the road. North of the house a track through Home Wood, mixed woodland, leads to St Elmo's Summerhouse, a low mound on top of the ridge (79030); the wooden summerhouse here has gone. The outer ditch and bank are part of a denuded Bronze Age barrow (306727), and the masonry remains in the centre are probably part of a wartime lookout.
Source:
Cadw 1995: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Clwyd, 92-4 (ref: PGW(C)31).
RCAHMW, 29 April 2022