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
14654
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
07/05/1998
Name of Property
Ice House to rear of North Stable Block at Emral Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Willington Worthenbury
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Emral
Easting
342071
Northing
344173
Street Side
Location
Located to the rear of the north stable block of Emral Hall and partly submerged in the ground. The stable block is reached by a private drive from Emral Hall Lodge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as an ice-house for Emral Hall (1724-27) designed by Richard Trubshaw and Joseph Evans and may be contemporary with the surviving stable blocks which were built 1730-35. Emral Hall was demolished in 1936.
Exterior
C18 ice-house of red-brick construction. Circular in plan with domed ceiling and tapering section. Later retaining walls to entrance with modern flat roof.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a scarce intact example of an C18 ice-house, and for group value with the stable blocks at Emral Hall.
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