Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Revetment and balustrade to forecourt and formal garden of Bettisfield Park
Hanmer, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bettisfield Park, Hanmer, Wrexham, designated on 15 November 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 15 November 2005
- Locality
- Bettisfield Park
- Community
- Hanmer
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93195, -2.80493
- Cadw reference
- 86949
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the S and W sides of the house.
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.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 garden feature of definite historic character, and for its contribution to the setting of the house.
Nearby in the register
- Bettisfield Park, including attached garden wallsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Water tower at Bettisfield ParkNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The Stables at Bettisfield ParkNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Farm Buildings at Bettisfield Park Home FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.