Screen Wall & Folly adjoining the N end of Craigle is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 May 1978. Screen wall and folly.
Screen Wall & Folly adjoining the N end of Craigle
- WRENN ID
- buried-stone-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1978
- Type
- Screen wall and folly
- OS grid reference
- SJ 124 579
- Coordinates
- 53.11186, -3.30986
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Screen Wall and Folly adjoining the north end of Craigle is designed in Picturesque Gothic style. The screen wall runs north to south and features a folly at the south end, where it steps back before connecting to the house. The wall is constructed from large and small blocks of random limestone, is castellated, and has large capstones, standing approximately 2 meters high.
The small folly resembles a tower and has three miniature turrets, made from large blocks of coursed limestone and heavily castellated. It is two-sided, following the dog-leg shape of the wall, with the front facing east towards Corwen Road. The front has a blocked arrow slit in the center, with the flanking turrets also featuring blocked arrow slits on each face and blind stylized crosses beneath the castellations. To the right, there is a narrow bay containing an entrance, which has a four-centred arch made of stone voussoirs that leads to a boarded door.
The south side of the folly mirrors the front, with similar turrets, blocked arrow slits, and stylized crosses. From the southwest angle, the screen wall returns towards the south and connects to the house, with a lean-to shed in front. On the rear, the north side has a blind doorway that has been infilled with stone, featuring three orders of mouldings and a four-centred arched head made of stone voussoirs.
Local climate
Screen Wall & Folly adjoining the N end of Craigle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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