Garden Walls, Corner Turrets, Gates and Gate Piers at Soughton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 April 1985. Garden walls, gate piers, turrets.

Garden Walls, Corner Turrets, Gates and Gate Piers at Soughton Hall

WRENN ID
solemn-paling-azure
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 April 1985
Type
Garden walls, gate piers, turrets
Address
Garden Walls, Corner Turrets, Gates and Gate Piers at Soughton Hall, Mold, Northop, CH7 6AB
OS grid reference
SJ 248 673
Coordinates
53.19758, -3.12655
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The garden walls, corner turrets, gates, and gate piers at Soughton Hall form a formal rectangular garden in front of the house, enclosed by tall red brick walls topped with stone cappings. At the center, there are a pair of square, panelled monolithic gatepiers on plinths, featuring moulded capstones that support tall urns. Between these gatepiers are double wrought iron gates with dog rails, where the top rails sweep down to the center and are finished with spear finials. These gates are attached to inner piers made of iron openwork with elaborate scrolled infill.

The garden features massive stone corner turrets set on cyclopean bases, which have segmental-arched recesses at the front and rock-faced surrounds. The turrets are square and have round-arched openings on each side, topped with ogee finials. The brick walls extend along the east and west sides of the house, enclosing courtyards. Each side has a doorway with dressed stone jambs and a flat stone lintel that includes a keystone. The east wall projects to the right and borders a low service building, which includes, from left to right, a three-light window, an oculus, and a round-arched entry.

There are corner turrets at the ends of the walls, similar to those at the front. A narrow north forecourt is enclosed by low brick walls on stone plinths, also topped with stone cappings. Intermediate piers with low external buttresses are placed between which are iron railings. At the center, there is a canted projection featuring 19th-century cast iron gates between tall brick gatepiers.

Local climate

Garden Walls, Corner Turrets, Gates and Gate Piers at Soughton Hall 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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