Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1580
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/06/1963
Date of Amendment
13/02/1995
Name of Property
The Groves (Also Known as Grove Farm)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Erbistock
Town
Locality
Erbistock
Easting
335950
Northing
341999
Street Side
Location
Situated at the end of a track running E off a by-road which runs S off the A528 to Erbistock.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Large house of C16 date which was remodelled and refronted probably in the earlier C18. Some later alterations and additions.
Exterior
T-shaped plan, earlier C18 front is red brick in flemish bond, slate roof with stone copings and kneelers, brick chimneys, stone plinth, stone quoins. Symmetrical elevation, 2-storeys, 5-windows with central, string course. Signs of rebuilding at eaves level. Windows are C19 4-pane sashes. Rear range: elevation to farmyard is timber-framed in tall retangular panels, with brick infill of C18 and later dates on a red sandstone plinth, entrance and porch to left, irregularly-placed windows of C19 date. Gabled end elevation has timber framing with diagonal braces and C19 extensions, elevation to garden has C20 conservatory extension but retains camber-headed small pane casements to first floor.
Interior
Not accessible at time of 1994 resurvey, but recorded as having dog-leg stair with twisted balusters.
Reason for designation
Listed at grade II* both for the C16 timber-framed Large house and the elegant earlier C18 front range
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