15221

 

II  

Designated  

22/10/1952  

12/12/1994  

Orangery at Nerquis Hall  

 

Flintshire  

Nercwys  

 

Nerquis Hall Estate  

323876  

359986  

 

To the W of Nerquis Hall at the end of an orchard, and close to the road.  

Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  

 

 

A Semi-octagonal Gothic orangery by Benjamin Gummow, architect of Ruabon, 1813. Of brick with rendered sides and ashlar facing to the three main walls. Castellated parapet with moulded string-course beneath crocketted and gabled finials (mostly reduced). These are at the corners and surmount narrow stepped and gabled buttresses with moulded bases. Large pointed-arched openings to the 5 faces, those at the sides and that in the centre with moulded labels. Complex wrought- iron tracery in Decorated style to the 3 main faces, that to the centre lacking the lower section. Adjoining the orangery to the R and running N, and then E in a curve, a roughly 14ft high brick wall with stone capping. Essentially late C18. Modern gated entrance immediately to the R of the orangery. About 100ft along the W-E section, in the centre, the flanking walls of a former greenhouse project to the N. These are stone coped and have ashlar faces to N with returned quoins. The wall continues eastwards at the same height until it terminates in sloped change of levels. In the centre of this last stretch of the wall, a large inserted entrance. This has a heavily-moulded oak doorcase with ovolo mouldings and an outer chevron pattern. The three sections, lintel and reveals, are clearly re-used C17 material, probably from the top of a screen. Plain boarded door.  

 

A fine early C19 orangery with earlier kitchen garden wall incorporating interesting C17 material, perhaps from Nerquis Hall.