Plas Taliaris (nprn 17837) is located in parkland (700048) between Llandeilo and Talley. Gardens lie around the house but mostly to the west and south-east. Both park and gardens probably originated in the mid-eighteenth century and their layout is considered little changed since the mid-nineteenth century. 

On the east front of the house is a decorative lawn, or croquet lawn, bordered to the north by small, grassed, terraces, and in the north-east corner of the upper terrace a conservatory. West of the house were the ‘pleasure grounds’, now overgrown but with mature deciduous and coniferous ornamental trees. In the northern area was the mill.

To the south-east of the house, alongside the present access road, is an irregular, sub-triangular, area of about 1.75 acres enclosed by stone walls 2.5m-3m high, the internal south-facing north wall being brick lined, and with internal subdivisions. On the north wall are traces of a small glasshouse with the remains of a possible heating flue. Associated with the dividing wall and to the south of it are the remains of the stone-built tool sheds and gardener's bothy. The interior is partly used as an orchard and partly as a meditation retreat with a number of summer houses built there.

Source: Cadw 2002: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, 80-4 (ref: PGW(Dy)13(PEM)).

RCAHMW, 22 February 2022