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
86947
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/11/2005  
Date of Amendment
15/11/2005  
Name of Property
Onion tower and attached walls at Bettisfield Park  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Hanmer  
Town
 
Locality
Bettisfield Park  
Easting
346165  
Northing
337586  
Street Side
 
Location
To the E of The Stables.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

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 a new entrance on the E side, an Italianate tower, and a Tudor-style tower with French pavilion roof. The onion tower (its modern but not necessarily original name) and attached walls were built in the mid C19, part of the development of service buildings and Home Farm at Bettisfield Park, and are shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey.  

Exterior
A 2-storey square brick outbuilding with reconstructed swept pyramidal roof on sawtooth eaves. On the N (farm) side is a boarded door in a Tudor arch. The S side has a 2-light mullioned window in the upper stage, in an unmoulded stone surround. On the W side is a brick wall with coping that continues to the NE corner of The Stables. On the SE side is a similar wall that continues S to the kitchen garden. It incorporates a higher gateway with Tudor arch, and Hanmer crest above in a stone tablet below stepped coping.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding partial rebuilding, as a building of definite C19 character and contributing to the strong group of service buildings at Bettisfield Park.  

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