Garden walls and pavillions at Rhual (including attached walls and Gatepiers to the drive entrance) is a Grade II* listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 1952. Walls and pavilions.

Garden walls and pavillions at Rhual (including attached walls and Gatepiers to the drive entrance)

WRENN ID
haunted-chalk-wagtail
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 October 1952
Type
Walls and pavilions
Address
Garden walls and pavillions at Rhual (including attached walls and Gatepiers to the drive entrance), Gwernaffield with Pantmwyn
OS grid reference
SJ 221 648
Coordinates
53.17497, -3.16662
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The garden walls and pavilions at Rhual, which include attached walls and gatepiers at the drive entrance, are listed as a significant structure. The brick walls, made of brownish orange brick, create a forecourt in front of the main elevation of the house. They feature a flat parapet topped with vase-shaped iron cresting plates and end with brick piers that support stone urns. The walls extend outward to form a larger secondary forecourt, with a pedimented pavilion at each angle. Each pavilion has a cast-iron finial shaped like a vase with three tulips. Inside the pavilions, there is simple fixed bench seating, likely from the 19th century, and niches on each side of the interior, which are said to have been used for placing beer mugs. The walls conclude with brick piers topped with ball finials. The eastern wall is lower in height and features two full-height stone gatepiers with ball finials and a wrought iron gate at the center. Decorative wrought iron insets, possibly from the early 19th century, fill the angle of the wall's return. On the outer face of the wall, three bee-boles are located at the northeast end. Behind the northern pavilion is a brick mounting block, and attached to the southeast side is a brick wall that connects to the driveway entrance walls, which have simple gatepiers.

Local climate

Garden walls and pavillions at Rhual (including attached walls and Gatepiers to the drive entrance) receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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