Manorowen, a nineteenth-century house (nprn 22372), is located to the south-west of Fishguard and Goodwick. It is notable primarily for the survival of its seventeenth-century walled garden (700089). This is separated from the house and its immediate grounds by the A487 road.

The house lies to the west of the road and is approached via a drive entering from the north off the A487 to a forecourt on the east front. There is a simple informal garden in front of the house, probably contemporary with it. It consists of a sloping lawn falling away to the east. It is bounded on the west by a scarp up to the drive and forecourt, and on the north by the drive itself. Flanking the lawn, at its north and south ends, are a few ornamental trees and shrubs. Behind the house is a triangular area of woodland. Now overgrown and disused it may originally have been part of the pleasure grounds of the house. It contains an old mill pond, remnants of its leat and former field banks.

The walled garden is on the opposite side of the road.

Source:
Cadw 2002: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, 250-3 (ref: PGW(Dy)64(PEM)).

RCAHMW, 13 April 2022

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Manorowen Garden and Grounds, Fishguard