Wales · Still standing
Halkyn Castle
Halkyn Castle is a 19th-century castellated mansion in Halkyn, Flintshire, built 1824–27 to designs by John Buckler and later extended in 1886. It is a buff ashlar stone house with castellations, turrets and many chimney stacks, set within a small park, terraced and walled gardens and ornamental woodland. The building and its stable block survive as a well-preserved example of an early castellated country house and are Grade II* listed.
Its prime
1886
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1886
The shape it held in its prime.
Halkyn Castle is a two-storey castellated mansion of buff ashlar stone with crenellated parapets and short polygonal towers and turrets punctuating the roofline; numerous tall grouped chimney stacks rise above. The principal façade shows large mullioned and transomed windows in regular bays and an arched central gate set in a low curtain wall leading to a forecourt. An extended wing with larger mullioned windows projects to one side. The house sits amid a small park and ornamental woodland with formal terraced and walled gardens.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1886.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Halkyn Castle — including 3 interiors: drawing room (elizabethan wing), staircase hall, dining room with chimneypiece. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Halkyn Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1886 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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