Revetment and balustrade to forecourt and formal garden of Bettisfield Park, Hanmer, Wrexham

Coordinates

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

Locality: Bettisfield Park

Traditional County: Flintshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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History

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.

Exterior

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.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a C19 garden feature of definite historic character, and for its contribution to the setting of the house.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II* Bettisfield Park, including attached garden walls
Hanmer
II Water tower at Bettisfield Park
To the N of the house and SE side of The Stables.
II* The Stables at Bettisfield Park
On the N side of the house and reached by a separate entrance from New Road.
II Farm Buildings at Bettisfield Park Home Farm
To the rear of the stables and on the left side of the entrance drive to the Stables from New Road. The buildings comprise the S and W ranges of the farmyard.
II Kitchen garden walls, including former vine house, greenhouses and bothies at Bettisfield Park
To the E of the main house and The Stables.
II Onion tower and attached walls at Bettisfield Park
To the E of The Stables.
II Boundary wall and gateway to NE side of Bettisfield Park
Set back from New Road and forming the boundary wall of the grounds.
II Top Lodge
To the NE of and beside the main entrance drive to the house, set back from New Road behind the park boundary wall.

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Revetment and balustrade to forecourt and formal garden of Bettisfield Park

A Grade II Listed Building in Hanmer, Wrexham