Banqueting House in Walled Garden at Talacre Abbey is a Grade II* listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 April 1987. Banqueting house.

Banqueting House in Walled Garden at Talacre Abbey

WRENN ID
patient-gravel-root
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 April 1987
Type
Banqueting house
Address
Banqueting House in Walled Garden at Talacre Abbey, Llanasa
OS grid reference
SJ 101 833
Coordinates
53.33896, -3.3511
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Banqueting House in the Walled Garden at Talacre Abbey is a two-storey building with a basement, designed in the Palladian style. It features single-storey wings built behind the original walls, which include a continuous balustrade set back from the main elevation. The basement is made of rusticated stone, while the upper storey is constructed of rubble stone that was previously stuccoed. The front of the building faces east towards the interior of the walled garden.

In the basement, there is a blind arch made of roughcast brick that frames a coat of arms. The lower storey has a blind balustrade with open shaped balusters surrounding the central window. This window is adorned with an eared architrave and a moulded cornice, although part of the cornice is missing. The window is boarded over but still retains some small-pane glazing bars. The pedimented gable features a diamond tablet that frames a roundel. On the right-hand wall, there is a blocked window with a stone architrave above the wing, which contains stone steps that were the original entrance.

The rear wall is roughcast and includes a coped gable on moulded kneelers, along with a central brick stack. It has two basement windows, and above them are single windows in both storeys, though all window details are missing. The outer wing on the right has a single window, while the wing on the left has a doorway.

Local climate

Banqueting House in Walled Garden 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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