Walled garden with attached bothies and greenhouses at Talacre Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 April 1987. Garden structure.

Walled garden with attached bothies and greenhouses at Talacre Abbey

WRENN ID
under-steel-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 April 1987
Type
Garden structure
OS grid reference
SJ 101 832
Coordinates
53.33888, -3.35078
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The walled garden at Talacre Abbey, which dates back to the 19th century, features attached bothies and greenhouses. It is divided into two unequal sections. The outer northern and western walls are constructed of rubble stone, while the remaining walls are made of brick, featuring shallow pilasters and flat stone copings. The bothy and workshops are located against the outer face of the northern wall, built from rubble stone with slate lean-to roofs, some of which are partly collapsed, and stone stacks at both ends.

There are two projecting gabled doorways positioned symmetrically to the right and left of the center. Between these doorways, there are four small-pane windows. To the left of the left-hand doorway, there are five full-height bays, which were originally open; three of these bays have been infilled, while the outer bays now contain an inserted casement window and a doorway. On the right side of the right-hand doorway, there are five similar bays, with three remaining open, one infilled, and the outer bay featuring an inserted casement. The right end wall has wedge lintels above small windows located at the lower left and upper right. The inner side of the northern wall has dilapidated lean-to greenhouses.

Both the eastern and western walls have doorways with stone surrounds at their northern ends. The western wall is built around the site of the former banqueting house. A wide gateway separates the two units, and at the southeast corner, the wall projects to include a lintelled doorway that once led to a walled path on the eastern side of the garden.

Local climate

Walled garden with attached bothies and greenhouses at Talacre Abbey sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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