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The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
15209
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/12/1994
Date of Amendment
12/12/1994
Name of Property
Screen Walls at Nerquis Hall Estate
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Nercwys
Town
Locality
Nercwys
Easting
324086
Northing
360046
Street Side
Location
Attached to the NE of Nerquis Hall, stepped down from and facing the primary entrance drive across the forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
A Castellated Gothic gateway with flanking drum towers, built by John Giffard before 1797 and giving access to the service court. Of sandstone ashlar on a narrow plinth. Symmetrical with advanced central entrance with large 4-centred chamfered arch. Key with sculpted head of Christ and returned, moulded label. Flanking sculpted relief plaques and crenellated parapet above. Short sections of flanking wall, also crenellated, though stepped down lead to large flanking drum towers. These with 3 string courses, the upper larger and simply moulded, the lower continued on to the connecting wall sections. Central blind quatrefoils with flanking blind dumb-bell-shaped gun-loops.
Adjoining the S tower to the R, a contemporary section of ashlar walling, advanced and slightly concave in profile, with canted returns. Crenellated parapet as before. 3 niches with depressed-arched heads and moulded labels, stopped with carved
heads. Above each of these a blind quatrefoil. The niches and quatrefoils are painted to simulate windows with intersecting tracery and leaded panes. Adjoining to the R of this, and connecting with the house to the E, a further section of similar wall. This was moved to this position in the mid 1960s from its original location to the W of the house.
Behind this screen wall, and adjoining the house to the E, the surviving ground-floor section of the Jacobethan E wing of the house, contemporary with the gateway. This is presently the kitchen and service wing of the house. Flat roof with moulded parapet. Off-centre entrance to E face with deeply recessed late C19 door with 2-part leaded light above. Flanking recessed leaded cross-windows. The S face has two 6-light mullioned and transomed windows and a moulded label-course, connecting with that of the main house. Adjoining this to the S and continuing around in 3 planes to the E, a tall rubble garden wall with plain stone capping. This has a slate-roofed brick and rubble lean-to to the rear, formerly a privy-block. In the centre of the SW facing returned section, a contemporary Gothic entrance with Tudor-arched head, returned, moulded label and chamfered reveals and voussoirs. The W return of the wall is of brick and is staggered in 3 sloped stages. In the centre is a modern opening and then the wall continues W in 2 staggered stages where it terminates.
An imposing gateway and associated walls which, with the surviving section of the E wing, represent all that remains of Giffards work of the 1790s.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Nerquis Hall.
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