Onion tower and attached walls at Bettisfield Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 November 2005. Outbuilding.

Onion tower and attached walls at Bettisfield Park

WRENN ID
solitary-vault-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 November 2005
Type
Outbuilding
Address
Onion tower and attached walls at Bettisfield Park, Hanmer
OS grid reference
SJ 461 375
Coordinates
52.93298, -2.80237
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Onion tower and attached walls at Bettisfield Park is a 2-storey square brick outbuilding featuring a reconstructed swept pyramidal roof with sawtooth eaves. On the north side, which faces the farm, there is a boarded door set in a Tudor arch. The south side includes a 2-light mullioned window in the upper section, framed by an unmoulded stone surround. The west side has a brick wall with coping that extends to the northeast corner of The Stables. On the southeast side, a similar wall continues south to the kitchen garden and includes a higher gateway with a Tudor arch, featuring the Hanmer crest above in a stone tablet below stepped coping.

Local climate

Onion tower and attached walls 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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