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Latitude: 52.932 / 52°55'55"N
Longitude: -2.8049 / 2°48'17"W
OS Eastings: 345992
OS Northings: 337475
OS Grid: SJ459374
Mapcode National: GBR 7F.M954
Mapcode Global: WH89M.WKHN
Plus Code: 9C4VW5JW+Q2
Entry Name: Revetment and balustrade to forecourt and formal garden of Bettisfield Park
Listing Date: 15 November 2005
Last Amended: 15 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 86949
ID on this website: 300086949
Location: On the S and W sides of the house.
County: Wrexham
Community: Hanmer
Community: Hanmer
Locality: Bettisfield Park
Traditional County: Flintshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Bettisfield Park was the seat of the Hanmer family and is a house of at least C16 origin. A new S entrance front was built in the late C18, probably by Samuel Wyatt of London. In the mid C19 there were further additions, including an Italianate tower of the 1840s and a Tudor-style tower with French pavilion roof, and a new entrance on the E side. The revetment and balustrade belong to this mid C19 phase of enlargement and are shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey.
The main section is on the S side, a freestone revetment and balustrade incorporating panel piers with pyramidal caps, and open arcading. At the W end is a bowed projection, the piers of which are larger and have 4 small ball finials. The return across the W front of the house is simpler, of brick with stone coping, and brick piers with pyramid caps. It incorporates a narrow entrance. A short return at the N end has similar detail.
Listed as a C19 garden feature of definite historic character, and for its contribution to the setting of the house.
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