Kitchen garden walls, including former vine house, greenhouses and bothies at Bettisfield Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 November 2005. Garden walls, vine house, greenhouses, bothies.

Kitchen garden walls, including former vine house, greenhouses and bothies at Bettisfield Park

WRENN ID
small-bastion-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 November 2005
Type
Garden walls, vine house, greenhouses, bothies
Address
Kitchen garden walls, including former vine house, greenhouses and bothies at Bettisfield Park, Hanmer
OS grid reference
SJ 461 375
Coordinates
52.93229, -2.80195
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The kitchen garden walls at Bettisfield Park date from the 18th century and are constructed of brick with copings and square piers, enclosing an area of approximately 80 meters square. There are entrances in the south and east walls featuring boarded doors beneath segmental heads. In the center of the north wall, there is a 20th-century entrance with a steel lintel. At the northwest corner stands a two-storey brick apple store, square in shape with a steep pyramidal slate roof. This building has gabled dormer openings, all boarded up, and a pointed boarded door on the east side. Adjacent to it, the north wall includes an entrance with a depressed arch and a later iron gate.

The west side of the north wall is flanked by buildings and overlooks a raised walled terrace in the northwest corner of the garden. This terrace features a central former vine house, now roofless, built of brick with rusticated stone quoins and a pediment. The vine house has a wide, tall round-headed arch with half-glazed panel cast iron doors and small-pane glazing. It is flanked by round-headed niches that contain sculpted male and female figures in classical attire. Above these niches are stone tablets adorned with festoons. The pediment features a small roundel with a re-used Coade stone medallion depicting a boy and a wheatsheaf, with a partly legible date of '179?'. To the right and left of the vine house are lean-to iron-frame greenhouses set on brick dwarf walls, each with half-glazed panel cast iron doors in their end walls.

On the outer north side, there are two lean-to bothies, one covered by a hipped roof, and one of which retains a window with iron-frame Gothic glazing.

Local climate

Kitchen garden walls, including former vine house, greenhouses and bothies at Bettisfield Park receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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