Wenvoe Castle, set in a landscape park (700315), lies on rolling ground between Wenvoe and Barry. It was largely the creation of Sir Edmund Thomas, third baronet, between 1733, when he inherited the estate, and his death in 1767. Gardens here were originally established with the sixteenth to seventeenth-century house on the site, by Thomas, with successive phases during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The kitchen garden is situated to the immediate east of the house (27995). It is roughly square, walled on all but the south side, which is fenced. The west wall is of stone, part brick lined inside. The east wall, of similar height, is of stone only. Along the north side is a high brick wall as far as a gardener's cottage, The Bothy, which abuts the wall near the east end. To its east is a short stretch of stone wall. The interior of the garden is grassed except for the north-west corner, where a new house has been built within it.
There have been walled gardens on this site since at least 1762 when two are shown where the present one lies, that at the north end the 'Garden' and that to its south the 'Kitchen Garden'. These appear to occupy the site of the present garden almost exactly, which may mean that the stone walls originated in the eighteenth century or earlier. The garden is shown as a single unit on the 1878 Ordnance Survey map which shows a cross path and extensive glasshouses around the interior. All these have now gone, as has most of the south wall. The Bothy, a two-storey house, is not shown on this map.
Source:
Cadw 2000: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Glamorgan, 288-91 (ref: PGW(Gm)33(GLA)).
RCAHMW, 27 June 2022