Introduction
Ballavale is an early 19th-century villa with a terrace and steps down to a seven-acre garden featuring ornamental trees and shrubs.
- History
Period
- Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Features & Designations
Features
- Steps
- Urn
- Description: There are two metal urns.
- Pond
- Description: Lily pond
- Specimen Tree
- Description: Cedar of Lebanon
- Specimen Tree
- Description: Cinnamon bark myrtle
- Specimen Tree
- Description: Red-flowered rhododendron, possibly of the R. arboreum series.
- Specimen Tree
- Description: Copper beech
- Specimen Tree
- Description: Large pine
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Period
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Survival
Extant
Hectares
2.7
- References
References
- Larch S. Garrad {A History of Manx Gardens} (Isle of Man: Collector's Choice, 1986) 69 A History of Manx Gardens