Sources: John Thorneycroft, CADW, parksandgardens.org
All images © John Thorneycroft
Originally a farmhouse and then a rectory, Machen House is situated in the hamlet of Lower Machen, adjacent to St Michaels Church. Part of the Tredegar estates, it was much enlarged in the 1830s by Augustus Morgan, a clergyman and third son of Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet
The gardens were laid out in the 1830s and include two man-made pools, both of which contain original fountain. Castellated boundary walls also still exist, whilst neither the maze garden nor the kitchen garden remain. This plan is from the 1950s
Little Pool: watercolour by Michael Edmunds (undated)
Looking across Big Pool towards the castellated boundary wall (c1950)
Big Pool (1950)
Little Rose Garden: watercolour by Michael Edmunds (undated)
Little Pool with original iron fountain (c1950)
The bee bole folly
Machen House in 1948