Crogen (NPRN 28312) is a medieval house set in the shadow of a castle mount (NPRN 306558). The house was remodelled in the late sixteenth-early seventeenth century and achieved its present form in the early nineteenth century. The house and castle mount occupy the tip of a rocky promontory projecting out into the floodplain of the Dee.
There was apparently a park in the seventeenth century, part of whose wall, with a pair of late seventeenth century gate piers, remain close by the late nineteenth century lodge (CADW Listing 24616). It is tempting to associate the park with the medieval house.
The grounds are depicted on the 1st edition OS County series (Merioneth. XV.14 1887). The house appears to face across a broad lawn to the south, with shrubberies, including the mount, on all other sides. Across the lawn is a group of anciliary buildings, a farmyard or stable yard, with a D-plan kitchen garden(?) adjoining the public road. All this is enveloped in parkland where it is not washed by the waters of the Dee.

John Wiles 10.07.07


This garden is depicted on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of Merionethshire XV, sheet 14 (1901). Its main elements on that map include greenhouse, contrived antiquity, orchard, parkland, pond, river, walk, woodland and a lodge.
C.S.Briggs 22.05.06