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
1349
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/02/1992
Date of Amendment
11/06/1998
Name of Property
Stables at Argoed Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Llangollen Rural
Town
Llangollen
Locality
Froncysyllte
Easting
326893
Northing
341390
Street Side
Location
Immediately to N of Argoed Hall which is set in its own wooded grounds high above a bend in the River Dee and to the N of A5. Reached along short drive.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably early C20; shown on 2nd edition OS map surveyed in 1909-10. Built for German-born R F Graesser (1844-1911), founder of the Wrexham Larger Brewery as well as the works that became Monsanto. Later converted to garage.
Exterior
Mannerist, purpose-built, stables of an unusually architectural kind. Single-storey, U-plan building, with tall symmetrical front, constructed in brightly coloured brick; slate roof. The projecting wings have distinctive facades with semicircular pediments and circular windows; these are linked across the centre by the screen wall, with balustraded parapet, that closes the small courtyard. The stepped-up pediments have ball finials to the top and over the flanking swagged pilasters that stop short of the overall cornice which is swept up over the small-pane circular windows; the latter have broad terracotta surrounds with keystones and aprons. Voussoirs to central segmental carriage arch. Courtyard (formerly covered) has glazed brickwork to lower part of wall and a similar band above. NW corner has a stock brick water tower, square to base and polygonal above with Venetian type windows to alternate sides; terracotta hoodmoulds, aprons and dentil cornices; weathervane to top.
Interior
Stables have coved ceiling and blue, cream and brown glazed tiling to walls. Retains 3 fine stalls with ornate ironwork stanchions and acorn finials; manufactured by John Davies, Sanitary Engineer, Ty Coch, Llangollen.
2-bay Saddle Room with arched truss and pitch pine fittings; tiled floor.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine example of a Late-Victorian/Edwardian stable building and for its group value with Argoed Hall.
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