The Llanbadarn campus is separate from the Penglais campus (nprn 700000). It lies about 1 km to the south-east, laid out on a hillside falling away to the south-west. The campus was developed from the 1970s onwards and was originally the Welsh College of Agriculture, Coleg Ceredigion and the Department of Library Studies, before it was absorbed by the university in 1994. The campus was landscaped in much the same way as the Penglais campus, with every available space being planted with trees and mounds of shrubs, most of them evergreen.

The main entrance is off a minor road running along the north-west side of the site. The road is bordered by pines and the entrance is flanked by banks of heather, hebe, Griselinia littoralis and Viburnum tinus, with eucalyptus trees on the upper side and birch on the lower. In the middle of the site, on the south-west side of the Coleg Ceredigion building, is a lawn with a circular bed of Trachycarpus fortunei in its north corner. A path runs the length of the south-west front of the building, next to which are three large concrete planters with oleanders in them. The path down the north-west side of the lawn is densely planted with mixed shrubs. A low residential building to the south has a densely planted long border against it, planted with mixed shrubs including fatsia, lonicera, ligustrum, choisya, berberis, cotoneaster, hebe and escallonia. Further downslope is a lawn sparsely planted with birch trees. Steep slopes are treated in the same way as on the main campus, with cascading planting of Cotoneaster microphyllus.

The landscaping and planting was the responsibility of Mrs Alina Rogers of the Welsh College of Agriculture.

Source:

Cadw 2002: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, 86, 90-1 (ref: PGW Dy47(CER)).

RCAHMW, 4 February 2022