Type House Architectural style(s) Georgian Designated 28 October 1976 | Built C.1800 Governing body Privately owned Phone +44 1291 431020 | |
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Location Caerwent, Monmouthshire Address Caerwent, Caldicot, Caldicot NP26 5AH, UK Similar Dewstow Golf Club, Chepstow Garden Centre, Chepstow Castle, Veddw House Garden, Tsunami aquatics | ||
Dewstow House, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales, is an earlier nineteenth century villa in a Neoclassical style. The house is notable as the site of "one of the strangest gardens in Wales." The building itself is plain; described by architectural writer John Newman as a "simple three-bay villa", it has extensive views over the Severn Estuary. It is a Grade II listed building.
Within, and under, the grounds lies a "network of very rare and unusual underground gardens" constructed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Comprising "underground passages and top-light chambers with artificial rock-work and stalactities," the garden structures have three separate Grade II* listings as a result of their importance. The gardens were rediscovered, excavated and restored at the beginning of the twenty first century and are now open to the public.