NPRN128098
Map ReferenceSN52SW
Grid ReferenceSN5156822678
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCarmarthenshire
Old CountyCarmarthenshire
CommunityLlanegwad
Type Of SitePARK
PeriodPost Medieval
DescriptionThis garden is depicted on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of Carmarthenshire XXXII, sheet 15 (1906), where the features depicted include a bridge, carrieage drie, conservatory, lodge, orchard, parkland, relict hedgelines, a rivwer kitchen garden, maze and footbridge, terraces, walled garden, woodland and woodland with vista paths.
Alltyferin was a Victorian paradise , built along a low ridge between the Cothi and amonir contributory. It is still approached by track along an attractive, rather ill-kempt tree-lined avenue. The lodge on the A40 was probably demolished post-War. Of the main site, there remain modest hints that something grand once existed there; a couple of yew trees, a small engine house and leet to the east of where the house actually stood, and an agricultural boundary that reflects the original south-facing terrace of the house's South-facing aspect. There is also a well-coursed wall some 3 m high to the E of the site, which perhaps formed part of the original garden enclosure.
FIG 6. Alltyferin house and conservatory c 1870 (from a copy photograph deposited in the National Monuments Record by Stephen Champion de Crespigny and reproduced with permission). of Peter Reid).
from C.S.Briggs paper on Tywi Valley Carms Ant 1997
C.S.Briggs 19.07.05