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
1537
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/06/1952
Date of Amendment
17/07/1996
Name of Property
Plas Bostock
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Holt
Town
Locality
Borras
Easting
338003
Northing
352747
Street Side
W
Location
Situated on a sharp bend to the west of the by-road Shepherds Lane, which runs N from the A534 to Gresford.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Plas Bostock, also known as the Red Hall, is of at least C17 origins. The present house is mainly of a late C18 construction with surviving C17 ranges. The house was charged for 6 hearths in the Hearth tax of 1670, the occupier then was George Clubbe, although it is known to have been previously the residence of the Bostock family.
Exterior
Front elevation: red brick, sandstone quoins, slate hipped roof. Central late C18 or early C19 pedimented stone porch with moulded segmented door surround with central keystone motif. Fanlight with gothick fan tracery. To either side 1 12-pane sash window with stone voussoirs with keystones. To first floor 3 horned 4-pane sash windows all with stone voussoirs and keystones. Right hand return elevation, single blank bay terminates in a straight joint which marks the division between earlier house and later addition. To the right of this stone plinth is evident at ground level, ground floor now pebbledashed, later windows inserted. Rear elevation: double gables, stone copings and shaped stone kneelers. 2 courses of brick remain exposed to form string course at first floor level. Later windows and basement doorway.
Interior
Interior was not accessible at time of re-survey (March 1996).
Reason for designation
Listed as a good regional example of a late C18 house, with earlier origins and historical connections.
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