Full Report for Listed Buildings
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
560
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/04/1987
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
Banqueting House in Walled Garden at Talacre Abbey
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Llanasa
Town
Locality
Talacre
Easting
310136
Northing
383300
Street Side
Location
Within the E wall of the walled garden W of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Talacre Abbey was built 1824-9 by Thomas Jones, architect, for Sir Edward Mostyn, on the site of an earlier house. The banqueting house is the only surviving building associated with the earlier house. It is C18 in date and is said to have been designed by Capability Brown. The attached walls of the kitchen garden are shown on the 1839 Tithe map.
Exterior
Palladian style of 2 storeys and basement, with single-storey wings built behind original walls, which have a continuous balustrade, set back from the main elevation. The basement is rusticated stone, the upper storey of rubble stone (formerly stuccoed). The front faces E to the interior of the walled garden. In its basement is a blind arch of roughcast brick framing a coat of arms. A blind balustrade to the lower storey has open shaped balusters to the central window. The window has an eared architrave and a moulded cornice (partly missing), is boarded over but retains some small-pane glazing bars. The pedimented gable has a diamond tablet framing a roundel. In the R-hand wall is a blocked window in a stone architrave above the wing, the interior of which incorporates stone steps that were the original entrance.
The rear wall is roughcast, with coped gable on moulded kneelers and central brick stack. It has 2 basement windows, above which are single windows in both storeys but all window details are missing. The outer wing to the R has a single window, the wing to L a doorway.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an exceptionally rare Palladian building associated with an C18 landscape garden, and as an integral component of the later outbuildings associated with Talacre Abbey.
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