Black Gates & Screens at Entrance to the Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 1952. Gates.
Black Gates & Screens at Entrance to the Tower
- WRENN ID
- sunken-tower-russet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- Gates
- Address
- Black Gates & Screens at Entrance to the Tower, Nercwys
- OS grid reference
- SJ 242 622
- Coordinates
- 53.15159, -3.13421
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Black Gates and Screens at the entrance to the Tower are decorative wrought iron gates dating from the 19th century. They feature a complex overthrow and flat, two-dimensional piers, with two bays of lower flanking screen-work. The piers are designed with openwork, showcasing scrolls, arrow and bell motifs, arches, and shells. The tops of the piers are arched and topped with urn finials. The gates themselves are segmentally arched, and the overthrow is elaborately decorated with foliate forms, shell motifs, scrolls, and a central roundel featuring an intertwined GW cypher. At the top of the overthrow is a gilded lion crest. The flanking screen sections are similar in design, consisting of two parts with dividing and end pilasters, as well as open foliate and geometric finials. Both the gates and the flanking sections are adorned with two tiers of fleurs-de-lis ornament at ground and dado height.
Local climate
Black Gates & Screens at Entrance to the Tower receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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