Curtain Walls and Precinct Walls to Hawarden Castle

The curtain walls and precinct walls of Hawarden Castle are an imposing structure built in a castellated style. Constructed by Sir Stephen Richard Glynne II, they serve as one of a pair of entrance gates to the new Hawarden Castle, with the other gate located immediately to the east of the house. These walls are attributed to John Buckler, who depicted the other gate in a watercolour dated 1819.

The walls are made of uncoursed sandstone and feature a large central Gothic archway that is chamfered and has false machicolations above. A crenellated parapet is supported by moulded brackets and features moulded copings. There are small flanking turrets with blind arrow slits and coped, crenellated battlements that rest on simple corbels. Inset coats of arms are positioned at the springing of the archway, and contemporary studded and panelled gates provide access.

The battlemented curtain walls curve in an arc to the east and west. To the east, the wall ends in a large shaped gable that forms the end wall of a terrace of stone cottages located at Nos 4-30 Glynne Way. The walls include two blind slits and three windows; two of the windows are leaded and consist of two lights, with one being a later addition, while the third is a single light leaded window. To the west, a similar stretch of wall extends for approximately 20 feet before it returns. A shorter ashlar wall of similar design, featuring three blind slits, continues westward from this point and is capped by a crenellated turret.

Surrounding the banked forecourt are contemporary squat retaining walls made of stone, which have regularly spaced miniature crenellated turrets and copings.