Adjoining Kitchen Garden Wall at Nerquis Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 1994. House. 1 related planning application.

Adjoining Kitchen Garden Wall at Nerquis Hall

WRENN ID
weathered-keystone-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 December 1994
Type
House
Address
Adjoining Kitchen Garden Wall at Nerquis Hall, CH7 4EB
OS grid reference
SJ 238 600
Coordinates
53.13193, -3.13918
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The adjoining kitchen garden wall at Nerquis Hall is a semi-octagonal Gothic orangery designed by architect Benjamin Gummow from Ruabon, built in 1813. The structure is made of brick with rendered sides and features ashlar facing on the three main walls. It has a castellated parapet with a moulded string-course beneath crocketted and gabled finials, most of which have been reduced. These finials are located at the corners and sit atop narrow stepped and gabled buttresses with moulded bases. The orangery has large pointed-arched openings on its five faces, with the side openings and the central one featuring moulded labels. The three main faces display complex wrought-iron tracery in the Decorated style, although the central face is missing its lower section.

To the right of the orangery, there is a roughly 14-foot high brick wall with stone capping, which is essentially from the late 18th century. A modern gated entrance is located immediately to the right of the orangery. The wall extends about 100 feet along the west-east section, with the flanking walls of a former greenhouse projecting to the north. These walls are stone-coped and have ashlar faces to the north with returned quoins. The wall continues eastward at the same height until it ends in a slope. In the center of this final stretch, there is a large inserted entrance featuring a heavily-moulded oak doorcase with ovolo mouldings and an outer chevron pattern. The three sections of the doorcase, including the lintel and reveals, are clearly made from re-used 17th-century material, likely sourced from the top of a screen, and it has a plain boarded door.

Local climate

Adjoining Kitchen Garden Wall at Nerquis Hall receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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