Trewarren House and Monk Haven
Trewarren House was built in 1845 and the Monk Haven valley was planned as wooded pleasure gardens for the Estate.
Monk Haven
A walled kitchen garden was incorporated into the design. In the 1950s the valley stream was dammed to make the large irrigation pond. The map of 1874 shows an earlier pond of which little remains to be seen except the ornamental bamboos planted at the time. The huge wall behind the beach features in Graham Sutherland's painting St. Ishmaels (1976). There are iron rings set into the seaward side for tying up boats. The remains of a boathouse can be seen on the westward landward side. The building on top of the cliff east of Monk Haven is a folly known as the Malacov. It was probably named after a tower in Sebastopol taken by the British in the Crimean War in 1855. This gives us an approximate date for the building. Other mysterious structures to be found in the woods are of similar construction and possibly contemporaneous.
