Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Folly at Nerquis Hall
Nercwys, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 22 October 1952
- Locality
- Nerquis Hall Estate
- Community
- Nercwys
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13379, -3.13791
- Cadw reference
- 15219
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Located 0.5Km to the NE of Nerquis Hall on a slight rise in a field.
Exterior
A late C18/early C19 Gothic folly of sandstone rubble. A 2-storey half-round tower with sham crenellated battlements and a blind cross- loop flanked by similar key loops to the upper section. Depressed- arched recess to lower section with decorative quatrefoil with square, open light above. Flanking round corner turrets with similar cross- loops, attached to the central tower by connecting sections of wall with depressed-arched openings with recessed squares above. There are string courses to the upper tower and turret sections and a continuous plain string course connecting each section. The turret to the R and the upper wall sections are ruined. The wall returns to the NE behind the L turret and terminates in a further, similar turret. Walls to dado height complete a rectangle behind the facade.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of small castellated folly, and for its associations with Nerquis Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Lower Gates & Forecourt Wall at Nequis HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Adjoining Garden Wall at Nequis Hall EstateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper Gates at Nerquis HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Adjoining Garden Wall at Nerquis Hall EstateDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.